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The Gemini-4 Astronauts is shown being hoisted aboard the Aircraft Carrier USS Wasp. The flotation collar is still...
Inside a control room aboard USS Portland, members and leaders of NASA’s Landing and Recovery team run through...
After splashdown of the Orion spacecraft on Dec. 11, 2022, NASA’s Artemis I Landing and Recovery Director Melissa...
S61-03256 (13 Sept. 1961) --- Recovery of Mercury spacecraft at end of the Mercury-Atlas 4 (MA-4) mission. Notice...
Inside a control room aboard USS Portland, members and leaders of NASA’s Landing and Recovery team run through...
The Gemini-4 Astronauts is shown being hoisted aboard the aircraft carrier USS Wasp. The flotation collar is still...
S61-03255 (13 Sept. 1961) --- View of the recovery of the Mercury-Atlas 4 (MA-4) spacecraft which was launched from...
After splashdown of the Orion spacecraft on Dec. 11, 2022, NASA’s Artemis I Landing and Recovery Director Melissa...
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Orion boilerplate test vehicle has been lowered into the water with a stationary crane from...
Melissa Jones, Landing and Recovery director with NASA's Ground Systems Development and Operations Program (GSDO)...
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – On the third day of Underway Recovery Test 4A in the Pacific Ocean, the Orion boilerplate test...
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The USNS Yukon, in the foreground, is stationed nearby the USS Anchorage, during the third day...
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – At Naval Base San Diego in California, U.S. Navy personnel prepare the Orion boilerplate test...
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – During the third day of Orion Underway Recovery Test 3 on the USS Anchorage in the Pacific...
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – U.S. Navy personnel in a rigid hull inflatable boat and U.S. Navy divers in a Zodiac boat attach...
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Orion boilerplate test vehicle floats in the Pacific Ocean during Underway Recovery Test 4A....
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – NASA’s Orion boilerplate test vehicle floats in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego as...
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – A mock-up of the Orion forward bay cover is lowered by crane from the USS Anchorage into the...
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Orion boilerplate test vehicle floats in the Pacific Ocean during Underway Recovery Test 4A....
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – On board the USS Salvor, a safeguard-class rescue and salvage ship, U.S. Navy personnel check...
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 8, or HSC 8, prepare two H60-S helicopters for flight on the deck...
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Orion boilerplate test vehicle has been lowered into the water with a stationary crane from...
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – NASA astronaut Nicole Stott prepares for the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics,...
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Orion boilerplate test vehicle is lifted with a stationary crane during the first day of...