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

U.S. Navy recovery team members practice bringing an astronaut aboard the USS John P. Murtha, using a dummy, during Underway Recovery Test-7 (URT-7) on Nov. 5, 2018. NASA's Recovery Team, along with the U.S. Navy, are practicing recovery of a test version of the Orion 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.