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

NASA Recovery Team members with Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) and the U.S. Navy practice recovering a test version of the Orion capsule on Oct. 31, 2018, during Underway Recovery Test-7 (URT-7) in the Pacific Ocean. URT-7 is one in a series of tests that the EGS Recovery Team, along with the U.S. Navy, are conducting 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.