Online: Saturn V 1st and 2nd stage splashdown

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Pieces of the Apollo 11's S-IC fell onto a German ship's deck. The ship's location was noted as 30d17m N, 74d15m W. Curt Newport, who led the recovery of the Liberty Bell 7, wrote in 2002 that he concluded that "the S-1C boosters from Apollo 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, and 16 landed in roughly a 5 x 11 nautical mile area." NASA maintains a website with the location of each of the impacts: Saturn Stage Earth Impact, Apollo by the Numbers.[1]

Based on that impact point table... I plotted the stage impact points: multiplottr.[2]

  1. Robert Pearlman, Re: Saturn V 1st and 2nd stage splashdown, NASAspaceflight.com Historical Spaceflight forum, 18/3/2007
  2. Roger Balettie, former Flight Dynamics Officer, Space Shuttle Mission Control Center, Re: Saturn V 1st and 2nd stage splashdown, NASAspaceflight.com Historical Spaceflight forum, 19/3/2007