Keywords: Orion water test.jpg NASA and Department of Defense personnel familiarize themselves with a Navy-built 18 000-pound Orion mock-up in a test pool at the Naval Surface Warfare Center's Carderock Division in West Bethesda Md Ocean testing will begin April 6 off the coast of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida The goal of the operation dubbed the Post-landing Orion Recovery Test or PORT is to determine what kind of motions the astronaut crew can expect after landing as well as conditions outside for the recovery team The experience will help NASA design landing recovery operations including equipment ship and crew necessities http //www nasa gov/mission_pages/constellation/multimedia/orion_port_mockup html Orion Mock-up and Collaboration Between NASA and Department of Defense 2009-03 Ryan Hanyok and the NSWC photographic team led by Peter Congedo PD-USGov-Military-Navy Orion spacecraft |