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A drop in the ocean
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splashdown
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Splashdown is the method of landing a spacecraft by parachute in a body of water. It was used by American manned spacecraft prior to the Space Shuttle program , and is planned for use by the upcoming Orion Multipurpose Crew Vehicle . It is also possible ...
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.
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.