How do people going to space land back on earth?

Question

cos I havent seen a rocket landing back on earth

Answer 1

Welll....scientists say that it CAN be done...with monkeys.

cynical wins

Answer 2

The rockets that propels men into space are not carried with the spacecraft. The space shuttle returns to earth by plunging through the atmosphere at such a great speed that it almost burns up due the friction of the Earth's atmosphere. A lot of people may be confused by the fact that air can such resistance to movement but this is a perfect example of inertia. The space shuttle has to push molecules of nitrogen and oxygen aside as it rushes through them, the inertia of the molecules of gas requires energy to overcome it, the resulting friction of the molecules rubbing against the hull of the shuttle creates great heat, the energy that was used to get the shuttle into space is now dissipated as it returns to Earth in the form of heat energy.

Answer 3

They used to have a capsule, it looked sort of like a gum drop or rain drop....some kind of drop. It had a heat shield on the bottom to withstand the intense heat of re-entry and when it got close to the surface of the earth the a bunch of parachutes would deploy and slow the descent. It would then crash somewhere into the ocean at about 20 mph, where it would float on well, giant balloons I guess. It would then be picked up by a nearby aircraft carrier.

Here is a pic of a capsule.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rcm/images/orlando/space-capsule.jpg

Now they just use a shuttle, which is essentially like a plane and they fly it back through earth's atmosphere. It is reusable at least.

Answer 4

A space shuttle re-enters then lands like a plane... not usually front page news... And the old missions, after re entry, the command module, would land in the ocean, thus the term Splash Down...

Answer 5

Space Shuttle?

Answer 6

If you have bothered to check the news, they don't use rockets to land back on earth.

Answer 7

They use the shuttle as kind of a glider, better explained like and airplane, only it goes much faster and its pretty damn big, and it lands just like an airplane, of course much higher speeds.

Answer 8

very easy question. you there is alway a spot to land on which nasa have. or if they dont it will parachute the spaceship down on land and nasa will track it. check these out!

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/news/cev_hi_res.html

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