#Repost from @explorenasa of a beautiful shot of an Orion spacecraft recovery rehearsal in the Pacific Ocean, led by integrated NASA and U.S. Navy teams last Friday. Under the auspices of Exploration Ground Systems, Melissa Jones, NASA’s recovery director, and her team will recover the Orion capsule and crew. This test is to help ensure they are ready before the first uncrewed Orion mission aboard the agency’s new Space Launch System rocket, known as Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1). EM-1 lays the groundwork for a crewed mission, EM-2, which will venture 40,000 miles beyond the Moon before returning crew aboard safely home . More: www.nasa.gov/exploration Credit: NASA #nasa #usnavy #pacificocean #exploration #groundsystems #orion #spaceexploration #nextfrontier #spaceisrad (at Los Angeles, California)