How do rockets return and land on Earth?

Thanks for A2A The basic requirement for landing, is that we have to reduced the speed before touch down. read more

At this time, only the DC-X (early 90s), and now Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin launch and return and “land” on Earth. Neither of these are orbital rockets. Space X has the first stage land on either a barge, or land. Not the whole rockets. read more

Historically, most rockets have needed to use all of their available fuel in order to get their payload into space. SpaceX rockets were built from the beginning with reusability in mind—they have enough built-in fuel margin to deliver a Dragon to the space station and return the first-stage to Earth. read more