a06 (AS-502)_v_bw_o_n (68-H-322, 68-HC-187)

            “Apollo 6 Command Module landed in the Pacific, northwest of the Hawaiian Islands at 4:56 PM, EST, April 4, 1968. Apollo 6 was the second unmanned flight of the Saturn V in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Lunar Landing Project.

Launch: April 4, 1968 7 AM Complex 39 Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
Impact Zone: 27°40’ N - 157°55’ W
50 Nautical miles West of the scheduled impact area.
Onboard Carrier (USS Okinawa) 15 hrs 55 min GET”

How does one ‘schedule’ an impact area…or, for that matter, anything locational/geographic? Most NASA caption writers’ elusive nemesis: the baffling & insurmountable grammatical complexities of the English language, let alone the often ungraspable mysteries of capitalization & punctuation. Ugh. But hey, a pleasant surprise; at least the image isn’t reversed left-to-right.
Actually, compared to all too many other abysmal offerings, this ain’t that bad.
   

Taken on: February 10, 2023

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