"Recovery swimmer attaching the flotation collar around the Apollo 14 capsule (CM-110), with the still-attached parachute lines still visible."

Date: February 9, 1971

NASA ID: 71HC-245

The U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship USS "New Orleans" (LPH-11) underway in San Diego Bay, California (USA), on 16 June 1988. Sikorsky CH-53E Sea Stallion and Boeing CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters line the flight deck. In the background are the submarine tender USS "McKee" (AS-41) and the submarine rescue ship USS "Florikan" (ASR-9)...

I just added this listing on Poshmark: Vintage United States Ship USS New Orleans LPH-11.

#throwbackthursday B&W photo of Men of Underwater Demolition Teams 11 and 12 ready the Apollo command module for lifting onto elevator two of the amphibious assault ship USS New Orleans (LPH-11) following the splashdown. During the mission the Apollo linked with Soviet Soyuz spacecraft.

"Apollo 14 crew members sit in a life raft beside their Command Module (CM-110) in the South Pacific Ocean as they await a U.S. Navy helicopter SH-3A Sea King from Anti-Submarine Squadron Six (HS-6), which will take them aboard the USS NEW ORLEANS (LPH-11), prime recovery ship. The crew men are, from left to right, astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., commander; Stuart A. Roosa, command module pilot; and Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot. Two U.S. Navy underwater demolition team swimmers (one partially visible in the right upper corner) assist in the recovery operations."

Date: February 9, 1971

Naval History and Heritage Command: USN 1146625

NASA ID: S71-19475

"Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot, is assisted out of the Command Module (CM-110) by a U.S. Navy underwater demolition team swimmer during the Apollo 14 recovery operations in the South Pacific Ocean. Mitchell was followed out of the spacecraft by astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., commander; and Stuart A. Roosa, command module pilot. Roosa is partially visible behind Mitchell."

Date: February 9, 1971

NASA ID: S71-19474, link, 71HC-264

"The Apollo 14 Command Module (CM), with astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., commander; Stuart A. Roosa, command module pilot; and Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot, aboard, approaches and touchdown in the South Pacific Ocean to successfully end a 10-day lunar landing mission. The splashdown occurred at 3:04:39 p.m. (CST), Feb. 9, 1971, approximately 765 nautical miles south of American Samoa. The three crew men were flown by helicopter to the USS New Orleans prime recovery ship."

Date: February 9, 1971

NASA ID: AS14-1219-71P-159, S71-18753, S71-19472

"Apollo 14 crew members step aboard the USS New Orleans, after exiting a U.S. Navy helicopter which retrieved the three from their splashdown site not far away. From left to right, are astronauts Stuart A. Roosa, command module pilot; Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot; and Alan B. Shepard Jr., commander.

They will be sealed inside a Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF) aboard the prime recovery ship."

Date: February 9, 1971

NASA ID: S71-19473, S71-20867, S71-18557, link

Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 74621-KN

"Astronaut Stuart A. Roosa, command module pilot, is hoisted inside a Billy Pugh net to a U.S. Navy helicopter assisting in Apollo 14 recovery operations in the South Pacific Ocean. Visible in a life raft beside the Command Module (CM-110) are astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., commander, back to camera; and Edgar D. Mitchell (partially obscured by the spacecraft), lunar module pilot. Three U.S. Navy underwater demolition team swimmers who assisted in the recovery operations are pictured in and around the life raft."

Date: February 9, 1971

NASA ID: S71-19476

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Crewmen recover the Apollo 14 capsule (CM-110) and hoist it onboard USS New Orleans (LPH-11).

Date: February 9, 1971

NASA ID: S71-19227, S71-18643

"The Skylab 4 Command Module splashes down in the Pacific Ocean southwest of San Diego, California at 10:17 am. The Command Module bobs in an apex-down configuration (stable two) in the calm water of the Pacific Ocean 176 miles southwest of San Diego, California, following a successful splashdown and 84-day mission in Earth orbit."

"A smiling William R. Pogue pauses in hatchway of Skylab 4 command module during recovery activities today aboard the USS New Orleans at the completion of man's longest space journey to date. Pogue splashed down with astronauts Gerald P. Carr and Dr. Edward G. Gibson, 84 days after the trio was launched by a Saturn IB rocket from Kennedy Space Center. Circling the globe 1, 214 times aboard the sophisticated Skylab space station during the nearly three-month flight, the astronauts demonstrated man's ability to live and work in space for extended periods."

Date: February 8, 1974

NASA ID: S74-17741, S74-17742, S74-17133, KSC-74PC-32

"A team of U.S. Navy swimmers assists with the recovery of the Skylab 3 Command Module following its splashdown in the Pacific Ocean about 230 miles southwest of San Diego, California. The swimmers had just attached a flotation collar to the spacecraft to improve its buoyancy. Aboard the Command Module were astronauts Alan L. Bean, Owen K. Garriott and Jack R. Lousma, who had just completed a successful 59-day visit to the Skylab space station in Earth orbit. Minutes later the Command Module with the three crewmen still inside was hoisted aboard the prime recovery ship, the USS NEW ORLEANS."

Date: September 25, 1973

NASA ID: S73-36401, 73-H-912

"UDT swimmers recover the command module from the Apollo-Soyuz mission, the first manned space flight conducted jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union; this was also the last of the Apollo missions."

Painting by George Gray; 1975

Naval History and Heritage Command: 88-161-QO

USS NEW ORLEANS LPH-11