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Splashdown drill takes NASA back to the future

Was it 1973 or 2013 yesterday in Norfolk, Va., when NASA and the US Navy practiced recovery of the new Orion Command Module? Not since the Apollo missions of the 1970s, prior to the shuttle program, has NASA recovered space crafts from the ocean. WAVY's Art Kohn reports.
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Was it 1973 or 2013 yesterday in Norfolk, Va., when NASA and the US Navy practiced recovery of the new Orion Command Module? Not since the Apollo missions of the 1970s, prior to the shuttle program, has NASA recovered space crafts from the ocean. WAVY's Art Kohn reports.