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Vertical takeoff, vertical landing is a form of takeoff and landing for rockets. Multiple VTVL craft have flown. A notable VTVL vehicle was the Apollo Lunar Module which delivered the first humans to
Apollo 16 LM Orion on the lunar surface, 1972
DC-XA landing in 1996
A Falcon 9 first stage performing a vertical landing, 2016
A Falcon 9 first stage landing on 21 December 2015 after boosting commercial satellites to low Earth orbit
McDonnell Douglas DC-X
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The DC-X, short for Delta Clipper or Delta Clipper Experimental, was an uncrewed prototype of a reusable single-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle built by McDonnell Douglas in conjunction with the United
VTVL
…on large reliable restartable rocket engines made it possible to use the already matured technology for rocket stages. The first pioneer was the McDonnell Douglas DC-X demonstrator. After the success of the DC-X prototype, the concept was developed substantially with small rockets after 2000, in part due to incentive…
McDonnell Douglas DC-XA Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) concept
The Delta Clipper Advanced
First flight