Jose Martinez, an instrumentation engineer with Jacobs, runs the winch line out to the test version of the Orion capsule in the well deck of the USS John P. Murtha, during Underway Recovery Test-7 (URT-7) on Oct. 31, 2018, in the Pacific Ocean. Exploration Ground Systems and the U.S. Navy are using the mock Orion to verify and validate processes, procedures, hardware and personnel during recovery of Orion in open waters. URTs are a series of tests to verify and validate procedures and hardware that will be used to recover the Orion spacecraft after it splashed down in the Pacific Ocean following deep space exploration missions. Orion will have emergency abort capability, sustain the crew during space travel and provide safe re-entry from deep space return velocities.
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Jose Martinez, an instrumentation engineer with Jacobs, runs the winch line out to the test version of the Orion capsule in the well deck of the USS John P. Murtha, during Underway Recovery Test-7 (URT-7) on Oct. 31, 2018, in the Pacific Ocean. Exploration Ground Systems and the U.S. Navy are using the mock Orion to verify and validate processes, procedures, hardware and personnel during recovery of Orion in open waters. URTs are a series of tests to verify and validate procedures and hardware that will be used to recover the Orion spacecraft after it splashed down in the Pacific Ocean following deep space exploration missions. Orion will have emergency abort capability, sustain the crew during space travel and provide safe re-entry from deep space return velocities.