splashdown
Noun
The act of landing in water, as by a space capsule or rollercoaster.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
- Examples
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He [John Wolfram] was the fastest swimmer in the group and knew he would be the first at splashdown.
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To get back to Earth, the space capsule had to withstand predicted temperatures of about 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit and slow down from nearly 25,000 miles per hour — or more than 30 times the speed of sound — to a gentle 19 mph or so before splashdown.
Noun
a landing of a spacecraft in the sea at the end of a space flight
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