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U.S. Navy recovery team members practice bringing an astronaut aboard the USS John P. Murtha, using a dummy, during...
S69-20638 (26 May 1969) --- Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, lunar module pilot, egresses the Apollo 10 spacecraft during...
Orion Underway Recovery Test 5 team members gather in the USS San Diego at the end of a series of tests. NASA's...
A test version of the Orion crew module is secured in the well deck of the USS San Diego and recovery team members...
Recovery team members watch Underway Recovery Test 5 from the deck of the USS San Diego in the Pacific Ocean off the...
NASA Landing and Recovery Director Melissa Jones talks to students, members of the media and the general public...
Orion Underway Recovery Test 5 team members gather in the USS San Diego at the end of a series of tests. NASA's...
Personnel from NASA, SpaceX and the U.S. Air Force have begun practicing recovery operations for the SpaceX Crew...
Orion Landing and Recovery team member Pete Ruett, with Jacobs, practices using a winch to prepare for Underway...
A sunrise colors the sky as another day of Underway Recovery Test 5 begins on the USS San Diego in the Pacific Ocean...
A colorful sunrise illuminates the water on the second day of Underway Recovery Test 5 in the Pacific Ocean off the...
NASA Landing and Recovery Director Melissa Jones, left, reviews procedures with a recovery team member inside the...
A U.S. Navy diver in a rigid hull inflatable boat uses a hook to capture a tow line during Underway Recovery Test 5...
A member of the recovery team watches as a test version of the Orion crew module is secured in the flooded well deck...
Orion Underway Recovery Test 5 team members gather in the USS San Diego during wrap up of the series of tests....
Apollo-era recovery engineer Milt Heflin, left, and NASA's Landing and Recovery Director Melissa Jones take time out...
NASA Landing and Recovery Director Melissa Jones briefs the media on the success of Underway Recovery Test-7 on Nov....
The Orion Underway Recovery Test 5 is in progress aboard the USS San Diego in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of...
The USS San Diego approaches the coast of San Diego, California after completion of Underway Recovery Test 5 in the...
Orion Underway Recovery Test 5 team members gather in the USS San Diego during wrap up of the series of tests....
S66-34124 (6 June 1966) --- Astronauts Eugene A. Cernan and Thomas P. Stafford sit with their Gemini 9A spacecraft...
S65-51654 (29 Aug. 1965) --- Long range view of astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr. being hoisted up to a Navy helicopter...
Inside a control room aboard USS Portland, members and leaders of NASA’s Landing and Recovery team run through...
Inside a control room aboard USS Portland, members and leaders of NASA’s Landing and Recovery team run through...