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![Master Sgt. Chris Seinkner, 308th Rescue Squadron, Patrick AFB, Fla., teams up with Staff Sgt. Eli Reynolds, of the 88th Test and Evaluation Squadron, Nellis AFB, Nev., to install the stabilization collar on the Orion Capsule during a recent exercise at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston, Texas. The Air Force and NASA work together to prepare for contingency landing site support, payload security, medical support, coordination of airlift/sealift for contingency operations, as well as other support services required in the event of a spacecraft emergency. The 45th Operations Group’s Detachment 3, located at Patrick AFB, was chartered in 1959 by the Secretary of Defense as the DoD Mercury Support Office [later renamed DoD Manned Space Flight Support Office], its express purpose is providing DoD support to our nation's human space flight programs, putting people into space and returning them safely to Earth. (Courtesy photo/NASA)](https://media.defense.gov/2016/Mar/18/2001481970/888/591/0/160128-O-ZZ999-305.JPG)
Air Force, NASA team up to ready for America's return to human spaceflight
Master Sgt. Chris Seinkner, 308th Rescue Squadron, Patrick AFB, Fla., teams up with Staff Sgt. Eli Reynolds, of the 88th Test and Evaluation Squadron, Nellis AFB, Nev., to install the stabilization collar on the Orion Capsule during a recent exercise at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston, Texas. The Air Force and NASA work together to prepare for contingency landing site support, payload security, medical support, coordination of airlift/sealift for contingency operations, as well as other support services required in the event of a spacecraft emergency. The 45th Operations Group’s Detachment 3, located at Patrick AFB, was chartered in 1959 by the Secretary of Defense as the DoD Mercury Support Office [later renamed DoD Manned Space Flight Support Office], its express purpose is providing DoD support to our nation's human space flight programs, putting people into space and returning them safely to Earth. (Courtesy photo/NASA)