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Questions regarding the specific part of flights, during which a spacecraft touches down on the solid ground of a celestial body.

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What is the heaviest object to have been returned to Earth with a parachute?

Note that SRB impact speed is rather high; if you're trying to land anything more fragile than a thick-walled solid-fuel rocket, you'll want retrorockets for landing as well. …
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