San Diego’s coast is serving as a training ground for NASA’s upcoming crewed mission to space. This week, testing and simulation training exercises concluded to prepare crews for the Artemis II mission around the moon.
Aboard USS John P. Murtha at Naval Base San Diego is what’s known as the crew module test article. It’s simulating a small part of what will be a historical space mission during what’s called the Underway Recovery Test 10.
”We are using these tests to make sure we will be just as successful for Artemis II,” Lili Villarreal of NASA Landing And Recovery Director said Wednesday morning at a press conference outside of USS John P. Murtha. This training comes on the heels of Artemis I, a mission that concluded in December off the coast of Baja California.Sign up for NBC San Diego newsletters.
Tuesday, between NASA and its partnership with the Navy, Air Force, and Department of Defense, the first recovery test of the Artemis II mission successfully wrapped up. About 38 nautical miles off the coast of San Diego, hundreds of crew members and experts across all agencies ran a series of tests with the CMTA, which is also called VADER.
”This is actually the first time we’ve taken it out in the open ocean, and so it did a fabulous job, we’re very proud of it,” Villarreal said.CAPT Doug Langenberg, the Commanding Officer of USS John P. Murtha, told NBC 7 Nearly 400 crewmembers aboard the ship, as well as a couple hundred experts from NASA, assisted with the training. Overall, he says hundreds are involved.
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