Video by Petty Officer 2nd Class Devin Kates
USS Portland (LPD 27) Artemis I Small Boat Recovery
Expeditionary Strike Group 3
Dec. 11, 2022 | 0:24
221211-N-VQ947-1006 PACIFIC OCEAN (Dec. 11, 2022) Navy Divers attached to Navy Expeditionary Combat Command's Explosive Ordnance Disposal Expeditionary Support Unit One recover the NASA Artemis I Orion spacecraft, Dec. 11, 2022. Amphibious transport dock USS Portland (LPD 27), along with Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Montgomery (LCS 8), is underway in U.S. 3rd Fleet in support of the recovery. The retrieval operation is part of a Department of Defense effort that integrates combatant command service capabilities to determine best practices for safely retrieving spacecraft capable of carrying humans into space.
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