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NASA Artemis Underway Recovery Test 12

Sergeant Huff of the 45 weather squadron deploys a weather balloon during Underway Recovery Test-12 onboard USS Somerset off the coast of California, Thursday, March 27, 2025. During the test, NASA and Department of Defense teams are practicing to ensure recovery procedures are validated as NASA plans to send Artemis II astronauts around the Moon [...]

SpaceX Splashdown Gets Unexpected Boaters Encroaching on DM-2 Recovery

By Overlook Horizon|2020-08-03T17:29:19-04:00August 3rd, 2020|Categories: Space Education|Tags: Astronauts, boat, boaters, boating, boats, capsule, coast guard, commercial crew, crew, crew dragon, crew landing, crew recovery, dangerous, demo 2, dm-2, dm2, elon musk, gets, impede, impeding, landing, landing zone, Live, mariners, nasa, nasa astronauts, near by, OLHZN, Overlook Horizon, recovery, recovery crew, recovery zone, return home, return to earth, rocket launch, SpaceX, spacex dm-2, spacex falcon 9, spacex landing, spacex splashdown, splashdown, vessel, wayward boat|

On August 2, 2020 the SpaceX Demo-2 mission concluded with a successful splashdown and recovery of their DM-2 Crew Dragon capsule with Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley onboard. At the recovery site, though, over 25 recreational boaters began encroaching into the recovery area where a Notice to Mariners had been issued. Although it appears [...]