A Navy frogman, deployed from the hovering helicopter, swims next to the spacecraft and makes contact with Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper inside, as his fellow team members bring up the floatation gear to be attached to the spacecraft. The main chute floats at top left, and the ejected reserve chute floats at the lower right of the spacecraft in the area discolored by the dye marker. Image # : S63-07730 Date: May 16, 1963

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Keywords: cooper, gordo, gordon, helicopters, ma-9, mercury, project, recovery, splashdown