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A landing of a spacecraft in the sea at the end of a space flight
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splashdown
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Splashdown is a water racing video game for the Xbox and Sony PlayStation 2 . It can be played by one or two players. Splashdown is quite similar to Nintendo 's Wave Race series. Players take control of a personal water craft as they race against each other ...
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n. The act of landing in water, as by a space capsule or rollercoaster.
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n. a landing of a spacecraft in the sea at the end of a space flight
Usage examples of splashdown.
At sixty-one hours after splashdown, there was only one chariot visible to radar, but it was circling just eight klicks above them and ten to the north.
Rockwell was even trying to make the Command Module reusable, by providing saltwater protection and modularizing its components—so a module could be cannibalized after splashdown, even if the whole thing couldn't be flown again.
They should be closing that pressure relief valve, for instance, and setting the floodlights to postlanding, and getting set to cast off the mains after splashdown, so that the Command Module didn't get dragged through the water.