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splashdown

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splashdown [′splash‚dau̇n]
(aerospace engineering)
The landing of a spacecraft or missile on water.
The moment of impact of a spacecraft on water.


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From launch to splashdown, Thimmesh gives names and voices to the 400,000-strong army that got Neil Armstrong and company to the moon and back.
The CEV is designed to land on the ground rather than sea splashdowns.
During the celebration, Splashdown 2004, museum personnel invited the key recovery team members to a public reunion.
 
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