Landing Zone 1 and Landing Zone 2, also known as LZ-1 and LZ-2 respectively, are landing facilities at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station used by SpaceX...
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lying between LC-12 and LC-14. In 2015, the LC-13 site was leased by SpaceX and was renovated for use as Landing Zone 1 and Landing Zone 2, the company's East...
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In military terminology a landing zone (LZ) is an area where aircraft can land. In the United States military, a landing zone is the actual point where...
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Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets, either on a landing zone on the ground or on a drone ship. SpaceX landing zones are: SpaceX Landing Complex 1 (LC-1), USSF...
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Falcon Heavy (redirect from Space Test Program 2)
Heavy lifted off at 20:45 UTC. Its side boosters landed safely on Landing Zones 1 and 2 a few minutes later. However, only one of the three engines on the...
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Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4 (redirect from Landing Zone 4)
return-to-launch-site (RTLS) landings at its two Cape Canaveral Space Force Station landing pads, Landing Zones 1 and 2, the company initially planned...
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Falcon Heavy test flight (redirect from Falcon Heavy Flight 1)
orbit, and its two booster cores returned to land at Landing Zones 1 and 2 several minutes later. The sole objective not completed was the landing of the...
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almost 500 percent, and the lunar landing program eventually involved some 34,000 NASA employees and 375,000 employees of industrial and university contractors...
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A Moon landing or lunar landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, including both crewed and robotic missions. The first human-made...
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United States Army Pathfinder School (category Airborne units and formations of the United States Army)
Their primary mission is to set up parachute drop zones and helicopter landing zones for airborne and air assault missions. The Pathfinders were created...
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landing on the surface of Venus. In 1984, the Vega programme began and ended with the launch of two crafts launched 6 days apart, Vega 1 and Vega 2....
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provide a stable landing surface at sea) or at Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1), a concrete pad at Cape Canaveral. The first ground landing at LZ-1 succeeded in December...
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ocean-going barge developed by SpaceX and equipped with propulsion systems to maintain precise position and a large landing platform. They were developed to...
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The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord...
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At recreational drop zones, an area is generally set side for parachute landings. Personnel at the site may include a drop zone operator or owner (DZO)...
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tanks, vehicles, cargo, and landing troops directly onto a low-slope beach with no docks or piers. The shallow draft and bow doors and ramps enabled amphibious...
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that Flight 8 could be the first 'catch' of the Ship should Flight 7's landing be successful. Due to the failure of S33 to complete its ascent burn, this...
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Arabsat-6A (redirect from Falcon Heavy flight 2)
separated from the center core and returned to land at Landing Zones 1 and 2, while the center core completed its mission and landed on Of Course I Still...
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Pathfinder Platoon (category Airborne units and formations of the United Kingdom)
reconnaissance force. Its role includes locating and marking drop zones and helicopter landing zones for air landing operations. Once the main force has landed...
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launch sites and on all of SpaceX's different landing zones and drone ships (except rarely used LZ-2 that is located nearby LZ-1). List of Falcon 1 launches...
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1926 leads to the top of Angels Landing and provides panoramic views of Zion Canyon. The trail to Angels Landing is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) long with an approximate...
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mainly to low Earth and geostationary orbits. The former Launch Complex 13 at Cape Canaveral, now renamed Landing Zones 1 and 2, has since 2015 been...
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Landing Zone Brace (also known as LZ Brace) is a former U.S. Army landing zone west of Kontum in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. The landing zone was...
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Amphibious transport dock (redirect from Landing platform dock)
also called a landing platform dock (LPD), is an amphibious warfare ship, a warship that embarks, transports, and lands elements of a landing force for expeditionary...
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Landing is the last part of a flight, where a flying animal, aircraft, or spacecraft returns to the ground. When the flying object returns to water, the...
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SpaceX Landing Complex 1, a SpaceX multi-pad landing facility on the Space Coast, Florida, United States SpaceX Landing Zone 1, a SpaceX landing pad on...
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disconnected and the heads would land on data. In some other early units the user would run a program to manually park the heads. A landing zone is an area...
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different launch sites and on all of SpaceX's different landing zones and drone ships (except rarely used LZ-2 that is located nearby LZ-1). B1080 became the...
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first time. It managed to return the first stage successfully to the Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral, marking the first successful recovery of a rocket...
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Gwynne Shotwell (category Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni)
She oversaw the first landing of an orbital rocket's first stage on land and on an ocean platform, the first relaunch and landing of a used orbital rocket...
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