Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Apollo 13 load on deck

Apollo 13

Command module being loaded onto deck of the USS Iwo Jima

Crop 1: Command module being loaded onto deck of the USS Iwo Jima

A photograph of the command module of NASA mission Apollo 13 being successfully recovered from the South Pacific Ocean. The mission was slated to land on the Moon, but an explosion en route from Earth put the lives of the crew in jeopardy. This is a crisp, high-resolution, impressively clear photograph documenting a unique historic event. I'm surprised by its high quality given that it was taken in 1970.

Nominated by

Dylan (talk) 01:03, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Comments

• I'm sure it wouldn't pass FPC with that stripe at the bottom. Fletcher (talk) 01:01, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

• Cropped version added; what do you think? Dylan (talk) 04:05, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

• Certainly better, so it's just a question of whether it's too grainy, and whether the composition is good enough. At this point the astronauts have already been evacuated, right, so at this phase of the mission it is just a routine recovery of the spacecraft. People may be less excited about that. But still it's a historical mission -- seems like a "maybe." Fletcher (talk) 11:38, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Seconder

• I'll agree with Fletcher; this could easily go either way. I'd nominate it and see how FPC voters take to it. Thegreenj 20:26, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

• Thanks for your help. I've nominated it at: Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Apollo 13 load on deck. Dylan (talk) 17:34, 20 August 2008 (UTC)