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STS054-S-098 (19 Jan 1993) --- This ground-level side view shows the Space Shuttle Endeavour during main landing...
This color thumbnail image was obtained by NASA Curiosity rover and is representative of the images acquired once...
This artist concept depicts the moment that NASA Curiosity rover touches down onto the Martian surface. The Mars...
This portion of NASA Mars Science Laboratory, called the descent stage, does its main work during the final few...
Space Shuttle Endeavour rolls out on runway 04-L at Edwards Air Force Base moments after touchdown, ending mission...
An illustration of NASA's Perseverance rover landing on Mars. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and...
STS049-S-301 (16 May 1992) --- A three-quarter aft view of the Space Shuttle Endeavour making its first landing,...
This artist concept depicts NASA Phoenix Mars Lander a moment before its 2008 touchdown on the arctic plains of...
This animation zooms in on the area on Mars where NASA Phoenix Mars Lander will touchdown on May 25, 2008. The image...
The Philae lander of Europe Rosetta mission has returned the first panoramic image from the surface of a comet. The...
S69-27466 (13 March 1969) --- The Apollo 9 spacecraft, with astronauts James A. McDivitt, David R. Scott, and...
In this illustration of a Mars sample return mission concept, a lander carrying a fetch rover touches down on the...
STS062-S-031 (18 March 1994) --- The main landing gear on the Space Shuttle Columbia touches down on the Shuttle...
S66-34117 (6 June 1966) --- The 72-hour, 21-minute Gemini-9A spaceflight is concluded as the Gemini spacecraft, with...
A 3D image shows what it would look like to fly over the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The image was...
STS112-S-038 (18 October 2002) --- An aft view shows the Space Shuttle Atlantis just prior to touchdown of its main...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Powerful xenon lights on the Shuttle Landing Facility outline the dark image of...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Orbiter Columbia, with its crew of seven, approaches touchdown on Runway 33 of the KSC...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Atlantis nears touchdown on runway 33 after completing the 10-day, 19-hour, 4.5-million...
STS109-S-016 (12 March 2002)--- The Space Shuttle Columbia, with its crew of seven astronauts on board, approaches...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Discovery nears touchdown on Runway 15 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in...
DFRF views of "Atlantis" Touchdown, Landing and Egress at the end of the STS-28/51J Mission, 10/07/1985.
The Spacewedge subscale research model glides in toward a touchdown at a California City landing zone during 1992...
COMMENTATOR: Landing gears down and locked --- main gear touchdown --- drag chute deploy -- nose gear touchdown and...