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Orion's parachutes deploy as it returns to Earth after Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) on Dec. 5, 2014. Part of...
Orion's parachutes deploy as it returns to Earth after Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) on Dec. 5, 2014. Part of...
Orion's parachutes deploy as it returns to Earth after Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) on Dec. 5, 2014. Part of...
Orion's parachutes deploy as it returns to Earth after Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) on Dec. 5, 2014. Part of...
Orion's parachutes deploy as it returns to Earth after Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) on Dec. 5, 2014. Part of...
Orion's parachutes deploy as it returns to Earth after Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) on Dec. 5, 2014. Part of...
Orion's parachutes deploy as it returns to Earth after Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) on Dec. 5, 2014. Part of...
This artist concept of the proposed NASA Mars Sample Return mission shows rendezvous of the orbiting sample...
This artist's concept shows the proposed Capture, Containment, and Return System, a NASA payload on the European...
This illustration shows the proposed Capture, Containment, and Return System, a NASA payload on the European Space...
The OSIRIS-REx mission, launching in September 2016, plans to return a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023 so...
NASA’s Artemis mission flew on a historic journey around the Moon, testing technologies, performing science and...
After 328 days in space, NASA astronaut Christina Koch has returned to Earth, now holding the record for longest...
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub returned to Earth aboard the...
During its flight, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft returned images of the Earth and Moon. Separate images of the Earth and...
This artist concept of the proposed NASA Mars Sample Return mission shows the launch of the martian sample back...
This animation illustrates the path the Stardust return capsule will follow once it enters Earth atmosphere.
The Cassini spacecraft returns a grand and unique vista of Saturn horizon, reminiscent of the views of our own...
This illustration shows the proposed process for safely recovering, containing, and transporting Mars samples...
This artist concept of a proposed Mars sample return mission portrays the separation of an Earth entry vehicle,...
This illustration shows a concept of what a rover fetching rock and soil samples on Mars for return to Earth could...
AS8-15-2561 (21-27 Dec. 1968) --- View of Earth as photographed by the Apollo 8 astronauts on their return trip from...
Following more than four hours in Earth orbit, NASA's Orion spacecraft is seen from an unpiloted aircraft as it...
Following more than four hours in Earth orbit, NASA's Orion spacecraft is seen from an unpiloted aircraft as it...