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The Crew Module Test Article (CMTA), a full scale mockup of the Orion spacecraft, is seen during Underway Recovery...
Members of NASA’s Landing and Recovery team are seen as they recover the Crew Module Test Article (CMTA), a full...
S89-39624 (3 July 1989) --- Following rollover from the Orbiter Processing Facility, the orbiter Columbia is...
USS Somerset sailors direct the landing of helicopters with astronauts during Underway Recovery Test-12 onboard USS...
When astronauts return to Earth from destinations beyond the Moon in NASA’s Orion spacecraft and splashdown in the...
Indicators showing the water level in the well deck of USS Somerset are seen as teams deploy the Crew Module Test...
When astronauts return to Earth from destinations beyond the Moon in NASA’s Orion spacecraft and splashdown in the...
NASA astronaut Andre Douglas is seen as he prepares to take part in practicing Artemis recovery procedures during...
S127-E-012919 (30 July 2009) --- Backdropped by a blue and white Earth, a Department of Defense pico-satellite known...
Members of NASA’s Landing and Recovery team are seen as they recover the Crew Module Test Article (CMTA), a full...
The STS-36 mission launch aboard the Space Shuttle Orbiter Atlantis on February 28, 1990 at 2:50:22am (EST). The...
NASA’s Exploration Ground System’s Landing and Recovery team, partners from the Department of Defense, and U.S. Navy...
NASA’s Artemis II crew member NASA astronaut Victor Glover smiles during a news conference discussing the practice...
Members of NASA’s Landing and Recovery team are seen as they recover the Crew Module Test Article (CMTA), a full...
S66-00933 (28 Jan. 1966) --- Gemini-11 Experiment D-16 Knee Tether, sponsored by the Department of Defense and the...
Teams work on the Crew Module Test Article (CMTA), a full scale mockup of the Orion spacecraft, as it sits sits...
The Crew Module Test Article (CMTA) is seen in the waters of the Pacific Ocean during NASA’s Underway Recovery Test...
NASA astronaut Stan Love is seen as he prepares to take part in practicing Artemis recovery procedures during...
NASA’s Exploration Ground System’s Landing and Recovery team, partners from the Department of Defense, and U.S. Navy...
A helicopter lands on USS Somerset off the coast of California, as NASA and Department of Defense teams participate...
The Crew Module Test Article (CMTA), a full scale mockup of the Orion spacecraft, is seen inside the well deck of...
Members of NASA’s Exploration Ground System’s Landing and Recovery team and partners from the Department of Defense...
Teams work to recover the Crew Module Test Article (CMTA), a full scale mockup of the Orion spacecraft, as part of...
Teams prepare to release the Crew Module Test Article (CMTA) during Underway Recovery Test-12 onboard USS Somerset...