How does a Space Craft land?

Answer 1

After reentering the Earth's atmosphere, the United States space shuttle lands as if it were a normal plane, using a 12-meter (39ft) parachute and its brakes to slow itself down. More information about the Space Shuttle's reentry and landing can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle#Re-entry_and_landing

Answer 2

I wonder whether you are talking about real spaceships (e.g. Columbia and Atlantis) or pretend ones like Enterprise. I suspect they vary.

real spaceships land by deploying parachutes to increase air resistance to help slow them and they apply reverse thrusters to help apply force in the opposite direction to also help slow them down to the point that they will land at a speed that wont kill them and cause the ship to blow up in a huge ball of fire and roast them all alive in a very gruesome death

For a successful return to Earth and landing, dozens of things have to go just right.

First, the orbiter must be maneuvered into the proper position. This is crucial to a safe landing.

When a mission is finished and the shuttle is halfway around the world from the landing site (Kennedy Space Center, Edwards Air Force Base), mission control gives the command to come home, which prompts the crew to:

1. Close the cargo bay doors. In most cases, they have been flying nose-first and upside down, so they then fire the RCS thrusters to turn the orbiter tail first.
2. Once the orbiter is tail first, the crew fires the OMS engines to slow the orbiter down and fall back to Earth; it will take about 25 minutes before the shuttle reaches the upper atmosphere.
3. During that time, the crew fires the RCS thrusters to pitch the orbiter over so that the bottom of the orbiter faces the atmosphere (about 40 degrees) and they are moving nose first again.
4. Finally, they burn leftover fuel from the forward RCS as a safety precaution because this area encounters the highest heat of re-entry.

On the morning of February 1st, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke up during re-entry, more than 200,000 feet above Texas. The subsequent investigation revealed the cause of the accident. During lift-off, pieces of foam insulation fell off the ET and struck the left wing. The insulation damaged the heat protection tiles on the wing. When Columbia re-entered the atmosphere, hot gases entered the wing through the damaged area and melted the airframe. The shuttle lost control and broke up.Columbia's Accident

Because it is moving at about 17,000 mph (28,000 km/h), the orbiter hits air molecules and builds up heat from friction (approximately 3000 degrees F, or 1650 degrees C). The orbiter is covered with ceramic insulating materials designed to protect it from this heat. The materials include:

• Reinforced carbon-carbon (RCC) on the wing surfaces and underside
• High-temperature black surface insulation tiles on the upper forward fuselage and around the windows
• White Nomex blankets on the upper payload bay doors, portions of the upper wing and mid/aft fuselage
• Low-temperature white surface tiles on the remaining areas

Answer 3

After flying around the airport in a waiting pattern the plane is cleared to land. As the pilots line up to land they drop the landing gear and flaps. The flaps are on the trailing edges of the wings, they slow the aircraft down by limiting the lift. The power on the engines is pulled back to idle and the aircraft glides down to the runway. Once over the threshhold (the big whit rectangles) the pilots flare. The flare is when they pull back on the yoke to make sure the main landing gear which is under the wings touch down first. As soon as the aircraft touched down, if it is a jet a reverse thruster is engaged. This redirects the flow of the air out of the engines to slow the plane down. Also, spoilers pop up on the tops of the wings to keep the plane from lifting off the runway again. Finally, brakes are applied and the aircraft rolls to a stop. Landing is by far the hardest part of flying but with practice anyone can do it.

I do agree with the answer, but to be a little precise we should say that the flaps do not limit the lift, rather they cancel it as and when they pop out disrupting the airfoil shape due which lift is generated. This leads to tremendous pressure on the tire which flattens thereby increasing the friction and helps in aircraft to halt. The more the tires, more time an aircraft will take to take off and too less tires will take more time for an aircraft to come to halt.

Answer 4

Space shuttles land just like a plane does. Flat down on it's stomach side.

Answer 5

a bird uses its feet as a landing gear and takes a running stop

Answer 6

You point the nose of the spacecraft towards the surface of the planet and use FULL THROTTLE.

Answer 7

It Flys Down From The Atmosphere and deploys a parachute to land on the runway

Answer 8

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