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KSC-2014-3870
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Orion boilerplate test vehicle has been lowered into the water with a stationary crane from the USS Salvor, a safeguard-class rescue and salvage ship, during the first day of Underway Recovery Test 4A at Naval Base San Diego in California. U.S. Navy personnel in two Zodiac boats practice procedures to tether and retrieve the test vehicle. The ship will head out to sea for four days to test crew module crane recovery operations. NASA, Lockheed Martin and the U.S.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-2014-3870. NASA/KSC, 2014-09-12. Public domain. ID: KSC-2014-3870.