Valerie Vinciullo, a senior engineer with Applied Physical Sciences, monitors wave movement from the bridge of a U.S. Navy ship during Underway Recovery Test-7 (URT-7) on Oct. 30, 2018, in the Pacific Ocean. Exploration Ground Systems and the U.S. Navy will use a test version of the Orion crew module, several rigid hull inflatable boats and support equipment to verify and validate processes, procedures, hardware and personnel during recovery of Orion in open waters. URTs are a series of tests to verify and validate procedures and hardware that will be used to recover the Orion spacecraft after it splashed 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.