Pago welcomes
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astronauts
Thousands of people in the South Pacific, as far afield as Fiji, saw the flaming re-entry of the Apollo 10 moon mission capsule into earth’s atmos phere before it splashed down 320 miles from American Samoa in May.
Later the same day most of American Samoa seemed to be at Tafuna Airport to greet the three astronauts as they landed by helicopter from the aircraft carrier Princeton, and transferred to a Cl4l jet for the final flight to Houston.
During their 35 minutes stay at Tafuna they were greeted by Governor Owen S. Aspinall and leading Samoans, and entertained by two bands and Samoan dancing groups, includ ing fire dancers.