URT-11 NASA & Navy Joint Press Conference

NASA’s Artemis II crew members from left to right, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA astronaut Victor Glover walk toward the USS San Diego and approach a mockup of the Orion spacecraft in San Diego, California on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, as part of the Underway Recovery Test (URT-11). URT-11 performed by NASA’s Exploration Ground System’s Landing and Recovery team, partners from the Department of Defense, and U.S. Navy personnel aboard the USS San Diego is the eleventh in a series of Artemis recovery tests, and the first the Artemis II recovery procedures involved the astronauts.

NASA’s Artemis II crew members from left to right, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA astronaut Victor Glover walk toward the USS San Diego and approach a mockup of the Orion spacecraft in San Diego, California on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, as part of the Underway Recovery Test (URT-11). URT-11 performed by NASA’s Exploration Ground System’s Landing and Recovery team, partners from the Department of Defense, and U.S. Navy personnel aboard the USS San Diego is the eleventh in a series of Artemis recovery tests, and the first the Artemis II recovery procedures involved the astronauts.

Photographer NASA/Isaac Watson
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