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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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A splashdown is the landing of a spacecraft or satellite in a body of water. Splashdown may also refer to: Splashdown (seaQuest DSV episode) , the second season finale of " seaQuest DSV " Splashdown (band) , a rock / trip hop band from Massachusetts Splashdown ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The choice of splashdown into the ocean rather than a land-based return was forced by the geographic position of the launch site.
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n. The act of landing in water, as by a space capsule or rollercoaster.
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.