splashdown's Usage Examples:

Locations of Atlantic Ocean splashdowns of American spacecraft.

"Orion landings to be splashdowns – KSC buildings to be demolished".

network pool coverage of Alan Shepard and John Glenn"s Mercury capsule splashdowns (in 1961 and 1962, respectively).

The mission ended following a successful splashdown on 8 March 2019 at 13:45:08 UTC (08:45:08 EST).

the five abort modes, the modes up to three (III) are variations of jettisoning the entire rocket followed by an immediate landing in the sea (splashdown).

renewed public interest in the Apollo program; tens of millions watched the splashdown in the South Pacific Ocean on television.

which sank in the ocean shortly after splashdown – NASA officials were nonplussed and they abolished the practice of naming capsules.

endurance of about a week in space, a capacity of two astronauts, and a splashdown landing after re-entry.

Following their time on the ISS, the spacecraft will undock and return to Earth via a splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean.

return to Earth via parachutes and make a water landing, similar to the splashdowns of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecraft.

marking the first splashdown in 45 years for NASA astronauts since the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, as well as the first splashdown of a crewed spacecraft.

The flight went as expected until just after splashdown, when the hatch cover, designed to release explosively in the event of.

Worden said after splashdown that all three parachutes did inflate properly at first but after dumping the RCS fuel (highly toxic [and Byrnesville was a town located in Conyngham Township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Synonyms:

landing,

Antonyms:

embarkation,