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Sailors assigned to the USS Somerset and NASA engineers release a crew module test article during a NASA underway recovery test in the Pacific Ocean, March 26, 2025. The training is designed to prepare for NASA's Artemis II crewed mission, which will send four astronauts around the moon and beyond in the Orion spacecraft. NASA and the Defense Department will conduct a series of tests to demonstrate and evaluate the processes, procedures and hardware used in recovery operations for crewed lunar missions.

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