splashdown

How To Use splashdown In A Sentence

• An asteroid splashdown in one of Earth's oceans could trigger a destructive chemical cycle that would wipe out half of the ozone layer, according to a new study.
• It looks like splashdown to me, and to everybody else in Suffolk as well.
• (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. Undefined
• The recovery crew is awaiting the splashdown of the space shuttle.
• Huygens has been built to survive an impact both on hard ice or a splashdown in a sea of lighter fuel.
• On July 24, 1969, flight controllers at NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston waved flags and cheered in celebration of the splashdown and success of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.
• 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. Buzz Aldrin's Advice to Norm Augustine - NASA Watch
• My mind can even assimilate the concept of a spaceship slingshoting around the moon and returning home to splashdown and glory. Matthew Yglesias » The Security Line Threat
• When we reached splashdown I wasn't sure how she'd react.
• The splashdown of Gemini 12 on November 15, 1966, marked the operational end of the Gemini program.