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recovery (of a spacecraft)

  1. The location and retrieval of the astronauts, scientific samples, data, and spacecraft at the termination of the mission.

  2. The time and date when a spacecraft lands and human, animal, and plant organisms are reintroduced to Earth gravity; sometimes abbreviated R+0, to indicate zero days after recovery.

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