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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA’s Freedom Star boat heads for the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean after departing from...
At the U.S. Naval Base San Diego in California, the Orion boilerplate test vehicle and support hardware are being...
Rescue team members are using a Boeing CST-100 Starliner training capsule to rehearse a search and rescue training...
A test version of the Orion crew module is secured in the well deck of the USS San Diego and recovery team members...
STS039-377-013 (28 April-6 May 1991) --- Moonlight saturates the high speed film used for auroral photography. Moon...
On the deck of the USS San Diego, NASA and U.S. Navy personnel monitor the process as a crane is used to lower...
Recovery team members watch Underway Recovery Test 5 from the deck of the USS San Diego in the Pacific Ocean off the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A representative of the 301st Rescue Squadron demonstrates rescue equipment on the HH-60G...
Orion Underway Recovery Test 5 team members gather in the USS San Diego at the end of a series of tests. NASA's...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Participants in a rescue training exercise, known as Mode VIII, are successfully launched...
On August 15, 2013, at the Naval Station Norfolk near NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia, NASA and the U.S....
A test version of the Orion crew module attached to tether lines sits in the flooded well deck of the USS San Diego...
Winch operations team members watch as a test version of the Orion crew module is secured in the flooded well deck...
Rescue team members are using a Boeing CST-100 Starliner training capsule to rehearse a search and rescue training...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – External tank 134 is towed toward the open door of the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly...
A test version of the Orion crew module has been tethered and pulled into the well deck of the USS San Diego using a...
NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, left, Eric Boe, center, Roscosmos cosmonaut Petr Dubrov, third from right, UAE...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In a U.S. Coast Guard boat off Florida's central east coast, astronaut Richard Mastracchio...
Benjamin Connell, a principal scientist with Applied Physical Sciences, monitors wave movement inside the well deck...
On August 15, 2013, at the Naval Station Norfolk near NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia, NASA and the U.S....
At Launch Pad 36A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, a Centaur upper stage is moved into place above the lower stage...
Orion Landing and Recovery team member Pete Ruett, with Jacobs, practices using a winch to prepare for Underway...
The Orion boilerplate test vehicle is secured in the well deck of the USS Anchorage during the first day of Underway...
Recovery team members watch Orion Underway Recovery Test 5 activities on the flight deck of the USS San Diego in the...