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Orion Splashdown 6k Video

Orion Splashdown 6k Video

Artemis I Orion Recovery Operations

NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission was successfully recovered inside the well deck of the USS...

Underway Recovery Test 9 (URT-9) - Day 1 Activities

During Underway Recovery Test 9 (URT-9), NASA’s Landing and Recovery Team monitors Day 1 testing aboard the USS John...

Underway Recovery Test 9 (URT-9) - Day 3 Activities

NASA’s Air Operations Co-Lead Don Reed briefs the air ops team during Underway Recovery Test 9 (URT-9) aboard the...

Underway Recovery Test 9 (URT-9) - Day 3 Activities

NASA Landing and Recovery Director Melissa Jones points out recovery operations to Capt. Gervy Alota, commanding...

Artemis I Orion Recovery

NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission was successfully recovered inside the well deck of the USS...

Artemis I Orion Recovery Operations

NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission was successfully recovered inside the well deck of the USS...

Underway Recovery Test 9 (URT-9) - Day 7 Activities

NASA’s Landing and Recovery Team secures a mock Orion capsule during the last exercise of Underway Recovery Test 9...

Underway Recovery Test 9 (URT-9)

Underway Recovery Test 9 (URT-9)

Orion Offload From USS Portland

Team members with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems program successfully removed the Artemis I Orion spacecraft from...

Orion Splash Down and Recovery Operations

Members of Kennedy Space Center’s public affairs team prepare for live coverage of NASA’s Orion spacecraft’s...

Underway Recovery Test 9 (URT-9) - Day 4 Activites

Small boats deployed from amphibious transport dock ship USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) motor toward a smoke marker...

Underway Recovery Test 9 (URT-9) - Day 2 Activites

NASA Test Director (NTD) Christine St. Germain consults with fellow NTD Paul Sierpinski on day 2 of Underway...

Orion Offload From USS Portland

Team members with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems program successfully removed the Artemis I Orion spacecraft from...

Orion Splash Down and Recovery Operations

After splashdown of the Orion spacecraft on Dec. 11, 2022, NASA’s Artemis I Landing and Recovery Director Melissa...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On a tour of the KSC Beach Corrosion Test Site, Testbed Manager Louis MacDowell (foreground) explains to Center Director Jim Kennedy (third from right) about a study being undertaken for the U.S. Navy: nonchrome primers for aircraft. At left is Lead Scientist Dr. Luz Marina Calle and behind MacDowell is Dr. Paul Hintze, who is working on a graduate project for the National Research Council. The KSC Beach Corrosion Test Site was established in the 1960s and has provided more than 30 years of historical information on the long-term performance of many materials in use at KSC and other locations around the world. Located 100 feet from the Atlantic Ocean approximately 1 mile south of the Space Shuttle launch sites, the test facility includes an atmospheric exposure site, a flowing seawater exposure site, and an on-site electrochemistry laboratory and monitoring station. The beach laboratory is used to conduct real-time corrosion experiments and provides for the remote monitoring of surrounding weather conditions. The newly added flowing seawater immersion facility provides for the immersion testing of materials and devices under controlled conditions.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On a tour of the KSC Beach Corrosion Test Site, Louis MacDowell (right), Testbed manager, explains to Center Director Jim Kennedy a project being undertaken for the U.S. Navy. At left are nonchrome primers for aircraft being studied. Behind Kennedy is Lead Scientist Dr. Luz Marina Calle. Behind MacDowell is Dr. Paul Hintze, who is working on a graduate project for the National Research Council. The KSC Beach Corrosion Test Site was established in the 1960s and has provided more than 30 years of historical information on the long-term performance of many materials in use at KSC and other locations around the world. Located 100 feet from the Atlantic Ocean approximately 1 mile south of the Space Shuttle launch sites, the test facility includes an atmospheric exposure site, a flowing seawater exposure site, and an on-site electrochemistry laboratory and monitoring station. The beach laboratory is used to conduct real-time corrosion experiments and provides for the remote monitoring of surrounding weather conditions. The newly added flowing seawater immersion facility provides for the immersion testing of materials and devices under controlled conditions.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On a tour of the KSC Beach Corrosion Test Site, Center Director Jim Kennedy (second from right) learns from Testbed Manager Louis MacDowell (right) about a project being undertaken for the U.S. Navy. Being studied are nonchrome primers for aircraft. At left are Lead Scientist Dr. Luz Marina Calle and Dr. Paul Hintze, who is working on a graduate project for the National Research Council. The KSC Beach Corrosion Test Site was established in the 1960s and has provided more than 30 years of historical information on the long-term performance of many materials in use at KSC and other locations around the world. Located 100 feet from the Atlantic Ocean approximately 1 mile south of the Space Shuttle launch sites, the test facility includes an atmospheric exposure site, a flowing seawater exposure site, and an on-site electrochemistry laboratory and monitoring station. The beach laboratory is used to conduct real-time corrosion experiments and provides for the remote monitoring of surrounding weather conditions. The newly added flowing seawater immersion facility provides for the immersion testing of materials and devices under controlled conditions.

Orion URT EFT-1 load capsule onto ship

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Orion boilerplate test vehicle arrived at the U.S. Naval Base San Diego in California, and...

KSC-2009-2349

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The engines of U.S. Navy NP-3D Orion aircraft are started in preparation for takeoff from the...

NASA Artemis Underway Recovery Test 12

Liliana Villarreal, NASA’s Artemis II landing and recovery director, Exploration Ground Systems Program, left, ESA...

Orion Underway Recovery Test 5 (URT-5)

Melissa Jones, Landing and Recovery director with NASA's Ground Systems Development and Operations Program (GSDO)...

Orion Underway Recovery Test 5 (URT-5)

A sunrise colors the sky as another day of Underway Recovery Test 5 begins on the USS San Diego in the Pacific Ocean...

KSC-2014-3444

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The tethered Orion boilerplate test vehicle floats in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San...