Beautiful images of NASA spacecraft landing
Although There Is A Lot Of Pressure When Launching A Spacecraft Into Orbit, Landing It Also Requires A Lot Of Courage From Various Aspects.
NASA’s safe landings are beautiful and worthy of photographers documenting the joy of returning heroic men and women who sought to explore the unknown and beyond. The first shuttle, STS-1, landing in 1981 as the first reusable space vehicle, drew more than 200,000 spectators to Edwards Air Force Base in California and ushered in a new era in spaceflight.
In previous flights, Splashdown space capsules containing astronauts landed in the water on the way back to Earth. The navy had to be ready to pick up the astronauts from the landing site and transfer them to the land.
The risk of landing capsules was high, From the failure of the watertight valve and the possibility of drowning, the loss of the signaling facilities, and the landing miles away from where it was supposed to be.
Interestingly, all these events have happened to NASA astronauts; It is noteworthy that although the landing capsule was landed by primitive methods and using a parachute; there were no casualties.
The only astronaut-related death occurred in 2003 when the capsule’s heat shield failed, and space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in the atmosphere, killing all seven crew members.
Shuttle Columbia is an unforgettable reminder of the Challenger disaster and the death of its passengers, as well as the events of Apollo 13.
For this reason, we must remember that despite the many risks, the following photos show the safe men and women who traveled to space and returned home safely to their loved ones.
The images below show a combination of landing capsules from the first space travel to recent space travel and the use of the Soyuz capsule.
1969 Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin wait in a lifeboat for a helicopter.
Gemini 7 astronauts James Lovell and Frank Boorman arrive at the spacecraft after landing.
Apollo 13 astronauts wait for a helicopter to lift one of their crewmates to land.
Ellen Bartlett, shortly after Liberty 7 landed in the Atlantic Ocean in 1961.
Ellen Bartlett transferred to a helicopter in 1961.
A Navy rescue team greets the commander of the Apollo 17 lunar mission.
1985 after the landing of the astronauts walking on the deck of the ship carrying them.
1966 After the emergency landing of Gemini 8, astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott wait inside the capsule for the rescue team.
Astronauts get out of the landing capsule.
2013, a remote spot in Kazakhstan, the first moments after the landing of the Soyuz capsule, which originated from the International Space Station.
Funeral of the shuttle Challenger crew in 1988 who could not return home. The challenger disintegrated 73 seconds into its mission, killing all seven crew members.
Apollo 13 astronauts waved to the public after their successful landing.
Shuttle Columbia on the runway in 1983.
Landing of NASA Space Shuttle Columbia, 1986, at Edwards Air Force Base.
Navy divers installed stabilization equipment around the landing capsule known as Destiny 7 after the 1963 landing.
The image of the astronauts in the landing capsule with their rescue ship in 1966.
The year 1965
Soyuz landing in a remote place in Kazakhstan, 2011.
Three deployed parachutes from the Skylab 3 space mission in 1973.
I am retrieving NASA space equipment and transferring it to the ship.
Shuttle Atlantis landed at the Kennedy Space Center in 1997.
The safe landing of Apollo 17 in American Samoa.
I am transferring astronaut Kernan to the rescue ship by helicopter.
The landing that never happened. The crew of Apollo 13 aborted the moon landing mission due to an explosion on the deck. Fortunately, they were successful in returning home. The picture above shows the wife of one of the astronauts talking to her little daughter.
Apollo 13 landing
1985, the orbiter’s crew is leaving after the end of the mission.
