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Members of NASA’s Exploration Ground System’s Landing and Recovery team and partners from the Department of Defense...
Derwin Bradley, a veteran police officer and former soldier, speaks to Kennedy Space Center employees at the...
The Crew Module Test Article (CMTA), a full scale mockup of the Orion spacecraft, is seen during Underway Recovery...
NASA’s Exploration Ground System’s Landing and Recovery team and partners from the Department of Defense aboard the...
USS Somerset personnel deploy fast boats during Underway Recovery Test-12 onboard USS Somerset off the coast of...
Members of NASA’s Landing and Recovery team load a mannequin into the Crew Module Test Article (CMTA) during...
When astronauts return to Earth from destinations beyond the Moon in NASA’s Orion spacecraft and splashdown in the...
S89-29370 (March 1989) --- These five astronauts have been assigned to man the Space Shuttle Columbia for STS-28, a...
NASA astronaut Deniz Burnham is seen as she prepares to take part in practicing Artemis recovery procedures during...
Lt. Col. Kevin Pieper, First Air Force, Detachment 3 Artemis program director discusses the Underway Recovery Test...
A Navy MH-60 Seahawk from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 returns to USS Somerset as teams practice Artemis...
When astronauts return to Earth from destinations beyond the Moon in NASA’s Orion spacecraft and splashdown in the...
A Navy MH-60 Seahawk from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 is seen as it lifts a training manikin as teams...
NASA astronaut Deniz Burnham, is helped from a Navy helicopter after returning from the Crew Module Test Article...
After splashing down at 12:40 p.m. EST on Dec. 11, 2022, U.S. Navy divers help recover the Orion Spacecraft for the...
S88-55870 (2 Dec. 1988) --- The space shuttle Atlantis and its five-man crew of astronauts are launched from Kennedy...
The Crew Module Test Article (CMTA), a full scale mockup of the Orion spacecraft, is seen during Underway Recovery...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the SRB Assembly and Refurbishment Facility, STS-114 Commander Eileen Collins talks...
Members of NASA’s Exploration Ground System’s Landing and Recovery team and partners from the Department of Defense...
When astronauts return to Earth from destinations beyond the Moon in NASA’s Orion spacecraft and splashdown in the...
Teams work on the Crew Module Test Article (CMTA), a full scale mockup of the Orion spacecraft, as it sits sits...
Boats are deployed during the Underway Recovery Test-12 onboard USS Somerset off the coast of California, Friday,...
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine answers a question during a discussion with Todd Harrison, director of defense...
NASA, Department of Defense personnel from Detachment 3 out of Patrick Air Force Base, and the Mobile Diving Salvage...