Underway Recovery Test 7 (URT-7) - Day 3 Activities

From the USS John P. Murtha, Engineman 2nd Class Christian Maldonado, at right, reaches for a tending line that Seaman Dante Jones, at left, will grab. The crew will then attach the line to the test version of the Orion capsule to help guide into the ship's well deck during Underway Recovery Test-7 (URT-7) on Nov. 1, 2018. 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.