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Navy divers approach NASA's Artemis II module to recover the crew in San Diego after returning from a lunar mission, April 10, 2026. The USS John P. Murtha is underway in the U.S. 3rd Fleet area of operations supporting the Artemis mission following its splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

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