Orion Recovery Preparations

An Orion recovery team member makes preparations for Orion's splashdown inside the well deck of the U.S. Navy's USS Anchorage on Dec. 2, 2014. A combined NASA/Navy team will tow Orion into the Anchorage's flooded well deck using the orange line after the spacecraft lands in the Pacific Ocean following Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) on Dec. 4. Orion will sit in the metal ring behind the yellow netting for the trip back to shore, and then be moved into the white cradle in the foreground for transport back to NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.