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This is a list of all spacecraft landings on other planets and bodies in the Solar System, including soft landings and both intended and unintended hard impacts.The list includes orbiters that were intentionally crashed, but not orbiters which later crashed in an unplanned manner due to orbital decay.
The ship was authorised under the United States Lend-Lease act as BAPM-4 ("British Mechanized Artillery Transport 4"), but was reclassified as LSD-12 ("Landing Ship Dock 12") on 1 July 1942. The vessel was originally to have been named HMS Dagger , but the name HMS Oceanway was assigned to it in August 1943.
Splashdown is the method of landing a spacecraft or launch vehicle in a body of water, usually by parachute. This has been the primary recovery method of American capsules including NASA’s Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Orion along with the private SpaceX Dragon.
In 1941, Igor Sikorsky fitted utility floats (also called pontoons) to the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300, making the first practical amphibious helicopter. [3] [5] In the 1940s and 1950s, some models of helicopter such as the Bell 47 and 48 and the Sikorsky R-4 and R-6 [6] were fitted with utility floats so that they could rest on both water and land.
Three Canadair CL-215 amphibious flying boats. The following is a list of seaplanes, which includes floatplanes and flying boats.A seaplane is any airplane that has the capability of landing and taking off from water, while an amphibian is a seaplane which can also operate from land.
Rivers of Virginia (15 C, 397 P) S. Springs of Virginia (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Bodies of water of Virginia" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of ...
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first Earth flyby, en route to Comet Grigg-Skjellerup [1] Galileo (first pass) NASA: 8 December 1990 flyby 960 km success gravity assist en route to Jupiter; minimum distance 960 km [2] Sakigake (first pass) ISAS: 8 January 1992 flyby 88,790 km success previously visited Halley's comet [3] Suisei: ISAS: 20 August 1992 flyby failure failure