Reentry vehicles for return to Earth could probably be powered by a magnetic rail mass driver, it has been discussed in the past.
I think you could make a comedy about how a film studio reuses the sets for faking a landing on an extraterrestrial body are re-used to make sci-fi TV shows...
“Criminy! We can’t use that camera angle and lighting! Everyone will recognize it as the landing site for [Capricorn I, for example]!”
“Can’t we just tell folks we were inspired by...the location?”
“It’d be _too_ good!”
[Rolling eyes] “What if we jumbled the rocks, knocked over part of that crater wall, and used a filter?”
[Sternly] “And what if someone superimposes photos from the landing and the show and points that out?”
[Getting angry] “And what if the producers were _serious_ enough about the show...and the rest...that they wouldn’t try to reuse _everything_ from the...previous production? Especially that [Jupiter II] lander!”
[Calming down] “Well...That’s the sort of _obvious_ cost saving-measure no one bats an eye at. Lander models are in all the stores.”