Helicopters and ships of the US Navy took charge of its recovery, which completed successfully the first test of the capsule with which the US intends to reach Mars with humans, NASA announced, Prensa Latina News Agency reports said.

According to the operators of the mission, all Orion systems worked perfectly, including two passes through the Van Allen radiation belts.

The heat shield also endured the intense heat that the capsule suffered during its reentry to the atmosphere, with descent speeds above 30 thousand kilometers per hour.

Built for NASA by the multinational company Lockheed Martin, the spacecraft is designed to carry humans into deep space more than ever, even asteroids and Mars.

During a trip that lasted four hours and 24 minutes, Orion orbited the Earth twice and in its second lap it reached an altitude of five thousand 800 kilometers, 15 times farther than the Space Station.

It traveled 96 thousand kilometers in total, more than any manned spacecraft in the last 40 years.