# NASA Tests Orion Crew Exit Plans in Gulf of Mexico

A NASA and Department of Defense team evaluated the techniques that will be used to make sure astronauts can exit Orion in a variety of scenarios upon splashdown after deep space missions, using the waters off the coast of Galveston, Texas, to test their procedures in July. The team used a mockup of the spacecraft to examine how crew will get out of Orion with assistance and alone. The testing is helping NASA prepare for Orion and Space Launch System missions with crew beginning with Exploration Mission-2 in the early 2020s.

More info on Orion: http://www.nasa.gov/orion

Video b roll: https://archive.org/details/NASA-Orion-Resource-Reel

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2017
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: NASA Johnson
- Genres: Space
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA_Tests_Orion_Crew_Exit_Plans_in_Gulf_of_Mexico.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: NASA Johnson
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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