The Phoenix..

[Gil T.Azell]

How did they land it?
(I haven't seen this question posed)
Thanks in advance, Bill

 

[Dukhat]

I always assumed that the command module just separated from the main body and re-entered the atmosphere just like Apollo/Dragon/soon-to-be constructed CST-100 and Orion.

 

[Ithekro]

I wonder how much of it is intact in the future to where Picard can almost touch it. Seems like a waste to lose the newly proven warp core and nacelles.

 

[Dukhat]

I wonder how much of it is intact in the future to where Picard can almost touch it. Seems like a waste to lose the newly proven warp core and nacelles.

Cochrane could have left it in a stable orbit over Earth and returned to it multiple times later by launching more ICBMs with the command module on top.

 

[Finn]

Or Picard and rest of the 24th Century people were lied to when they were growing up. That thing back in the 24th Century Washington D.C. isn't the real Phoenix