Like Soyuz?
Interesting, why would they want that capability?
All Russian space vehicles land on land because they don’t have easy access to warm waters and Kazakhstan steppe is big and empty.
But why boeing/nasa would want that?
Interesting, why would they want that capability?
All Russian space vehicles land on land because they don’t have easy access to warm waters and Kazakhstan steppe is big and empty.
But why boeing/nasa would want that?
Dragon was also initially intending to land on solid ground, but dropped the idea when NASA asked for additional tests to prove that popping landing legs out of the heat shield would be safe. SpaceX had intended such landings in large part because of the plans for Red Dragon, but since by then they had started to shift towards Starship, they deemed it easier to just splashdown and deal with the extra refurbishment than try to prove out a technology they no longer felt the need for.