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NASA's Recovery Team takes time for a group photo in the well deck of the USS John P. Murtha, during Underway Recovery Test-7 (URT-7) on Nov. 5, 2018. Behind them is the test version of the Orion capsule. The Recovery Team, along with the U.S. Navy, practice recovering the Orion test version as part of URT-7 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.