(AGENPARL) – ven 28 luglio 2023 July 28, 2023
MEDIA ADVISORY M23-095
NASA Invites Media to See Recovery Craft for Artemis Moon Mission
Aboard the USS John P. Murtha, NASA and Department of Defense personnel practice recovery operations for Artemis II in July. A crew module test article is used to help verify the recovery team will be ready to recovery the Artemis II crew and the Orion spacecraft. Credits: NASA/Frank Michaux
Media are invited to see the new test version of NASA’s Orion spacecraft and the hardware teams will use to recover the capsule and astronauts upon their return from space during the [Artemis II](http://www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii) mission. The event will take place at 11 a.m. PDT on Wednesday, Aug. 2, at Naval Base San Diego.
Personnel involved in recovery operations from NASA, the U.S. Navy, and the U.S. Air Force will be available to speak with media.
U.S. media interested in attending must RSVP by 12 p.m., Monday, July 31, to the Naval Base San Diego Public Affairs or 619-556-7359.
Teams are currently conducting the first in a series of tests in the Pacific Ocean to demonstrate and evaluate the processes, procedures, and hardware for [recovery operations](https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/ground/index.html) for crewed Artemis missions. The tests will help prepare the team for Artemis II, NASA’s first crewed mission under Artemis that will send four astronauts in Orion around the Moon to checkout systems ahead of future lunar missions.
The Artemis II crew – NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen – will participate in recovery testing at sea next year.
For more information about Artemis, visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/artemis
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Press Contacts
Rachel Kraft
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
Madison Tuttle
Kennedy Space Center, Florida
321-298-5868