Space scientists have collected a wealth of information from spacecraft that have orbited,landed on and dug into the Martian surface.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

Pilot Chesley Sullenberger safely landed a US Airways passenger plane on New York's Hudson River after both its engines failed.

VOA: special.2010.01.02

As part of the supply effort, the British Royal Air Force even landed Sunderland Flying Boats on a Berlin lake.

VOA: special.2011.08.11

But when it landed, the pilot could take off the wings and propeller and drive it like any other car.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

He landed in California. He left a hole so deep that to this day it is known as Death Valley.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

They landed at Hadley Rille near the Apennine Mountains, northwest of the place where Apollo Eleven had landed.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

One of the drops landed on the head of a tiny lizard crawling near the feet of Beatrice.

VOA: special.2011.01.29

A bird with broad white wings and a long slender neck flew past Sylvie and landed on a pine branch below her.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

The Ocean of Storms was about two thousand kilometers west of the place where Apollo Eleven had landed.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

On Friday, at an airport in Vienna,Austria, an American plane and a Russian plane landed, parked side by side and exchanged occupants.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD (translator): "The Sejil-2 missile, which has very advanced technology, was launched from Semnan and it landed precisely on the target."

VOA: special.2009.05.23

That was when men from Earth -- American astronauts flew their Apollo Eleven spacecraft to the moon, landed and returned home safely.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

In about sixteen fifty-three, a trader named John Farrar and three friends landed on the island from Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

They came down near Surveyor Three, an unmanned spacecraft that had landed on the moon two years before.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

The sailors landed on a beach and started a cooking fire near some containers of the mineral natron.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

He would wait in orbit around the moon while Armstrong and Aldrin landed and explored the surface.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

They landed in the Pacific Ocean, only six kilometers from the ship that waited to rescue them.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

Future generations may sing about the "hero on the Hudson" - the pilot who saved his passengers when he crash-landed on a river.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

So as Atlantis landed for the final time, Astronaut Chris Ferguson simply said "Mission complete, Houston."

VOA: special.2011.07.27

The force threw little Bill out of the wagon and he landed on the sandy ground.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

Cernan and Schmitt landed in a valley almost directly north of the Apollo Eleven landing place.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

Once the flight landed in New York he deployed the emergency slide and left the plane.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

Americans Neil Armstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon on July twentieth, nineteen-sixty-nine.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

The first shipload of several hundred gold seekers landed at Skagway on July twenty-sixth,eighteen ninety-seven.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

The Eagle has landed." That was Neil Armstrong talking to Mission Control in Houston, Texas.

VOA: special.2011.07.18

The Eagle has landed." NASA's plan had called for the astronauts to test instruments, eat and then rest for four hours before leaving the Eagle.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Nine days after take-off, Voyager landed smoothly at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

VOA: special.2010.10.06