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An overall view of activity in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Counter following the successful splashdown of the Skylab 4 command module in the Pacific Ocean. The three flight controllers in the foreground, left to right, are flight director Neil B. Hutchinson; flight director Donald R. Puddy; and astronaut Robert L. Crippen, a spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM). Astronauts Gerald P. Carr, Edward G. Gibson and William R. Pogue had just completed an 84-day mission with the Skylab space station in Earth orbit.