Recovery team members work to lift a test version of Orion's forward bay cover out of the Pacific Ocean using a crane on board the USS Anchorage on Sept. 16, 2014. NASA and the Navy are working together this week to test tools and techniques that will be used to retrieve the spacecraft once it splashes down following Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1). The forward bay cover protects the top section of Orion's crew module until the spacecraft is almost ready to land. It is jettisoned to allow Orion's parachutes to deploy and must be recovered separately from the crew module. Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.
Photographer MC1 Corey Green
Date September 16, 2014