Video : NASA/Ames Research Center
The team from NASA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and other organizations flew aboard NASA's DC-8 airborne laboratory, packed with cameras and other imaging instruments, to capture the high-speed re-entry of Hayabusa spacecraft's into Earth's atmosphere over an unpopulated area of central Australia on June 13, 2010. The Japanese spacecraft completed its seven-year, 1.25 billion mile journey to return a sample of the asteroid Itokawa.
Video : NHK news
The record of atmospheric reentry of capsule from ground
Video : NASA/Ames Research Center
Stardust is an American interplanetary mission of the NASA whose purpose was to investigate the makeup of the comet Wild 2 and its coma. It is the first sample return mission to collect cosmic dust and return the sample to Earth. The movie was taken from a NASA DC-8, it was flying at the eastern edge of the Nevada state line. The Stardust sample return capsule had a soft landing in the US Air Force's Utah Test and Training Range at 3:10 am MST.