Related Clues:

• End of many a space mission making front-page news on descent
• End of descent after climbing Mont Blanc et al proven to arrest onset of dementia
• Securing place in band with Sad Space Mission's end?
• The main landing has prominent feature, blue
• Mountains around indicated -- avoid finally in that landing
• Big news story -- sad end of space flight
• Spacecraft's landing at sea
• Climbing mountains with quiet descent on landing
• Lot of publicity before unhappy oceanic homecoming
• Dash along landing