splashdown
IPA: spɫˈæʃdaʊn
noun
- The act of landing in water, as by a space capsule or rollercoaster.
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Examples of "splashdown" in Sentences
- The third and final water attraction is Splashdown.
- The spacecraft splashdown position was estimated to be.
- The spacecraft splashdown position was estimated to be .
- NASA is anticipating a splashdown rather than a landing.
- The capsule would return for a splashdown in the Bay of Bengal.
- Life followed up with a cover showing Glenn after his splashdown.
- Also, the exact height of the mini tsunami produced by the splashdown.
- A splashdown in the eastern Atlantic Ocean would only be a contingency.
- It transmitted sensor and video data until it was destroyed on splashdown.
- After splashdown, it inflates a kind of raft so that it floats, and it's towed to shore.
- My mind can even assimilate the concept of a spaceship slingshoting around the moon and returning home to splashdown and glory.
- This is the final splashdown for students who have spent months designing, building and testing remote-controlled devices that operate underwater.
- Same huge expendale rocket, same disposable spam can spacecraft, same throw away Lunar lander, same splashdown requiring half the Navy to come and get you.
- (AP) - 1 of the pilots from the US Airways "splashdown" flight in the Hudson River in New York will attend an Experimental Aircraft Association's banquet next month.
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