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NASA's Landing and Recovery Director Melissa Jones and astronaut Don Pettit observe recovery of a test version of the Orion capsule during Underway Recovery Test-7 (URT-7) on Oct. 31, 2018, onboard the ULL John P. Murtha, in the Pacific Ocean. URT-7 is one in a series of tests to verify and validate procedures and hardware that will be used to recover the Orion spacecraft after it splashes 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.