SAN PEDRO, California — NASA's next spaceship, the Orion capsule, has had a wet summer. For a full week in August, NASA engineers and the U.S. Navy worked side by side to practice retrieving the ...

The first flight of NASA's Orion spacecraft was scrubbed Thursday morning, but a San Diego-based recovery ship remained at sea for the next try on Friday.

Belgian offshore installation contractor DEME said Saturday that the "revolutionary" offshore installation vessel Orion officially joined its fleet. This next-generation vessel is equipped with a ...

According to Ponds, there is no better ship for the recovery of Orion than the Anchorage, with its radar, flight deck, robust medical facility and all-important well deck, an area of the ship that ...

The Orion recovery team includes Navy amphibious specialists, ... Then Navy personnel will attach tending lines to Orion and flood the ship’s well deck with about 6 feet of seawater, ...

To practice for the next Orion space mission, the US Navy in conjunction with NASA has completed a successful rehearsal in the Pacific Ocean of splashdown recovery operations of the crew module.

The Artemis 1 recovery team during a practice exercise on December 2, 2022. Photo: NASA Should all go as planned, NASA’s Orion spacecraft will splash down off the coast of Baja, California, on ...

The Artemis I Orion capsule is scheduled to land Sunday in the Pacific Ocean. The 322-foot rocket bolted skyward on Nov. 16. Divers will use sensors to conduct “sniff checks” for leaking ...

USS John P. Murtha (LPD-26) completed a series of tests practicing the recovery of an Orion spacecraft, preparing for an expected space mission next year.

NASA plans to winch the capsules aboard an Amphibious Transport Dock ship instead of using helicopters to hoist it aboard an aircraft carrier. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays.

A NASA sea ship that for 30 years retrieved space shuttle boosters after they splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean now has a new mission to serve the Merchant Marines.On Tuesday (Aug.

The recovery tests for Orion were conducted from the USS Anchorage, seen here in port in San Pedro, Los Angeles. The USS Anchorage is a U.S. Navy amphibious transport ship that first sailed in 2013.