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Nine O'Clock News

on BBC One London

Presented this week by Kenneth Kendall with the BBC's reporters and correspondents around the world
Weather

including Apollo 16 Splashdown
Live colour TV from the recovery ship USS Ticonderoga and the recovery helicopters waiting for Apollo 16 900 miles south of Hawaii.
Astronauts Young, Duke and Mattingly begin re-entry at 400,000 feet moving at 22,000 mph.
9.17 pm Radio black-out commences as the capsule begins to decelerate at white heat.
9.25 pm Main parachutes open at 10,000 feet.
9.30 pm Splashdown.

Contributors

Newsreader:
Kenneth Kendall

BBC One London

About BBC One

BBC One is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964. It replaced BBC Television.

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