Waiting, December 9, 1972. Five men are seated inside the prime recovery helicopter 001 as they await the splashdown of Apollo 17. Three of the men are helicopter crewmen wearing helmets and headsets, and the other two in the foreground are divers wearing scuba gear. This darkly shaded scene is enclosed in a parenthesis-like composition, and many curved lines on the sides echo the parenthesis of the side borders. The edges of the whole scene are unfinished. Writing in the lower left corner reads: "Apollo 17 / USS Ticonderoga / UDT Team 11".
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Digitized by Julie Weinstein
Date Created
02/01/2021
Source
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Keywords
ART Drawings
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