The Navy's USS Salvor makes its way out to sea with a test version of Orion on deck on Sept. 12, 2014. NASA and Navy personnel on board the Salvor used the ship's crane to test recovery techniques prior to Orion's first launch on Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1). Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.
Photographer Cory Huston
Date September 12, 2014