Any one know how a rocket comes back and land on the earth?

Answer 1

I don't think that the full rocket can return from space since certain parts of the rocket are usually ejected during travel. Normally, the only thing that usually returns to earth is the space shuttle, which is attached to the rocket at liftoff.

Answer 2

Actually, everyone has it dead wrong that no rockets land back on the Earth. Each of the space shuttle's solid rocket boosters are, indeed, "rockets" in and of themselves. After detaching from the external tank, they fall back down and then release a parachute to land in the ocean off the coast of Florida....then retrieved by ships to be reused.

But, otherwise, yeah...the only way that rockets land back on the Earth is in pieces after some sort of malfunction.

Some folks also need to be educated of what a rocket is. The space shuttle itself is not a rocket...it is a spacecraft that is launched by rockets. (The same goes for Soyez and Apollo capsules.) When the shuttle lands, it does so as a glider, a type of aircraft...again, a glider is not a rocket.

Answer 3

A rocket does not land on the earth. Before the space shuttle, rockets had capsules on them. Once the rocket re-entered the earth's atmosphere, the capsule (with a parachute system) would detach from the body of the rocket over a ocean for recovery of the crew and not the rocket. Today's space shuttle are the only spacecraft capable of going into space and then landing back on earth.

Once the space shuttle re-enters the earth's atmosphere to land, it is treated like an airplane with telemetry and radars used to guide it to land.

Answer 4

Rockets cannot land back on earth due to size restrictions that it would take to fire retrorockets enabling a landing. The Space Shuttle has ceramic tiles to protect it upon reentry and it glides in unpowered. The Soyuz(Russian) and old Apollo craft jettison their maneuvering module, fire retrorockets and use a heat shield to protect them from the heat of reentry. Upon reaching a certain altitude, parachutes deploy slowing the craft for a landing(thumpdown, as the American astronauts joked about the Soyuz, landing on land), or splashdown, the American's landing in the water.

Answer 5

Rockets don't. They shed the various stages of propultion they may have to deliver whatever payload to whatever destination. The used stages fall back to Earth. They don't land.

Answer 6

It lands at the ocean