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Crews transport NOAA’s (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Geostationary Operational Environmental...
Apollo-era recovery engineer Milt Heflin observes the new ways in which the Orion crew capsule will be recovered...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Participants in the Mode VIII exercise being conducted at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., are...
Crews transport NOAA’s (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Geostationary Operational Environmental...
At Launch Pad 36A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, a Centaur upper stage is lifted up the gantry for mating with the...
Orion Landing and Recovery team member John Stirling, with Jacobs, practices using a winch to prepare for Underway...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In a rescue training exercise, known as Mode VIII, off Florida's central east coast, an...
Inside the well deck of the USS San Diego, a winch operator prepares for Underway Recovery Test 5 in the Pacific...
On August 15, 2013, at the Naval Station Norfolk near NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia, NASA and the U.S....
A test version of the Orion crew module floats outside the well deck of the USS San Diego during Underway Recovery...
A test version of the Orion capsule sits in its cradle in the well deck of the USS John P. Murtha during Underway...
The USS San Diego departs Naval Base San Diego in California on its way out to sea in the Pacific Ocean for the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Off Florida's central east coast, a member of the rescue team in a training exercise, known...
Rescue team members are using a Boeing CST-100 Starliner training capsule to rehearse a search and rescue training...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Participants in the Mode VIII exercise being conducted at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., get...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Participants in a rescue training exercise, known as Mode VIII, are successfully launched...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Representatives of the 301st Rescue Squadron demonstrate the use of rescue equipment on the...
STS98-E-5040 (9 February 2001) --- One of a series of three digital still camera's views of the station's Unity node...
Crews transport NOAA’s (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Geostationary Operational Environmental...
Crews transport NOAA’s (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Geostationary Operational Environmental...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – The Pegasus payload fairing opens during operations to remove the fairing from...
The Orion boilerplate test vehicle is in the water-filled well deck of the USS Anchorage during the first day of...
Crews transport NOAA’s (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Geostationary Operational Environmental...
Winch team operators help guide a test version of the Orion crew module into the flooded well deck of the USS San...