Underway Recovery Test 7 (URT-7) - Day 2 Activities

The Exploration Ground Systems Recovery Team, based out of Kennedy Space Center in Florida, practices bringing a test version of the Orion capsule inside the flooded well deck of the USS John P. Murtha and set it in a cradle as part of Underway Recovery Test-7 (URT-7) on Oct. 31, 2018, in the Pacific Ocean. URT-7 is one in a series of tests to verify and validate procedures and hardware that will be used to recover the Orion spacecraft after it splashes down in the Pacific Ocean following deep space exploration missions. Orion will have emergency abort capability, sustain the crew during space travel and provide safe re-entry from deep space return velocities.