Editing Reusable launch vehicle (section)

====Parachutes and airbags====
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{{See also|Water landing}}
These are landing systems that employ parachutes and bolstered hard landings, like in a [[splashdown]] at sea or a touchdown at land. The latter may require an engine burn just before landing as parachutes alone cannot slow the craft down enough to prevent injury to astronauts. This can be seen in the Soyuz capsule.

Though such systems have been in use since the beginning of [[astronautics]] to recover space vehicles, only later have the vehicles been reused.

E.g.:
*[[Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters]]
*[[SpaceX Dragon|SpaceX Dragon capsule]]