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

NASA and U.S. Navy recovery team members go over procedures for bringing an astronaut aboard, using a dummy, during Underway Recovery Test 7 aboard the USS John P. Murtha on Nov. 5, 2018. The Recovery Team is practicing recovery of the Orion capsule as part of URT-7 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.