NASA Rocket Landing

The green parachute happened to snag on the propeller, with the rocket dangling below.

That makes for a strange recovery: rocket landing captured by Navy aircraft before it hits the tarmac at NASA.

NASA Ames is an active airfield. It was a busy day Saturday with the rocket launch windows punctuated by a Zeppelin landing, two F18 full throttle takeoffs, and a C130 dropping off a platoon of Marines. The F18 here took off moments later. The pilots were prepping and posing for photos with the kids off to the right at the LUNAR rocket launch event.