Artemis II Recovery Operations
The Artemis II Orion crew module after being offloaded from the well deck of USS John P. Murtha at Naval Base San Diego and lifted from the Orion Recovery Cradle Assembly on April 18, 2026. The gray area, as seen on the edge where the spacecraft’s heat shield and the backshell meet, is from recovery operations.
- Date
- 2026-04-18
- Photographer / author
- NASA/Kevin Davis
- Collection
- KSC
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"Artemis II Recovery Operations" (2026-04-18). NASA/KSC/NASA/Kevin Davis. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-20260418-KED03-0002Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 10331.
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