On this day (#OTD) December 19, 1972, Apollo 17 splashed down in the southern Pacific Ocean at 2:25 pm Eastern Standard Time (as seen in this gif). Landing in the water, a “splashdown,” was standard practice during the early U.S. space program - and we'll soon be doing it again. But the most recent U.S. crewed splashdown was in 1975, at the end of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission. During the Space Shuttle era crews landed on runways. More recently, Space Station crews coming home on the Rus
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