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U.S. Navy Boatswain's Mate 1st Class David Liberty of the USS John P. Murtha communicates with the NASA Recovery Team during Underway Recovery Test-7 (URT-7) on Nov. 1, 2018, in the Pacific Ocean. URT-7 is one in a series of tests that the Exploration Ground Systems Recovery Team and U.S. Navy are performing 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.