Flags were a common site in Mission Control as they cheered the successful splashdown of Apollo 11 on July 24, 1969.
The Apollo 11 crewmen await pickup by a helicopter from the U.S.S. Hornet after splashing down at 11:40 a.m., July 24, 1969, about 812 nautical miles southwest of Hawaii.
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