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 ...

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 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, ...

The recovery team had two hours to locate the capsule, retrieve the astronauts and get them safely to the ship. NASA astronaut Deniz Burnham was inside the Orion for today's test run.

An uncrewed Orion capsule successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean Sunday, Dec. 11, at 12:39 p.m. ET concluding NASA's Artemis I moon mission.

NASA's Orion capsule made a blisteringly fast return from the moon Sunday, parachuting into the Pacific off Mexico to conclude a test flight that should clear t ...

Editor's Note: This story was originally published on Dec. 7, before NASA solidified Orion's splashdown destination as a point off the coast of Baja California, Mexico instead of San Diego. Read ...

One of the most crucial steps—if not the most crucial step—in safely returning astronauts to the Earth from space is the recovery process. This can happen either on land or sea, but for NASA’s ...

During Underway Recovery Test-8 in March 2020, NASA's Landing and Recovery team aboard the USS John P. Murtha approach a full-sized mockup Orion spacecraft in the Pacific Ocean.

If Orion was manned, the recovery team would have only about two hours to get its astronauts to shore for medical evaluation. "Everything we’re doing right now is really to learn how to go ...