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Landing for many an Apollo mission
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splashdown
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Splashdown is a Hot Tuna album released in 1984 containing the tracks from a previously unreleased live acoustic performance that had been played on the short-lived radio station WQIV in the mid-1970s. During the recording, news of the Apollo-Soyuz mission ...
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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.