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John Stirling, with Jacobs on the NASA Recovery Team, unties the test version of the Orion crew capsule before Underway Recovery Test-7 (URT-7) night operations on Nov. 3, 2018, in the well deck of the USS John P. Murtha. URT-7 is one in a series conducted by the Exploration Ground Systems Recovery Team 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.