Splashdown

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of landing in water, as by a space capsule or rollercoaster.
  2. 2
    a landing of a spacecraft in the sea at the end of a space flight wordnet

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landing

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"Gordo, a squirrel monkey, was catapulted 600 miles high in a Jupiter rocket, also on December 13, 1958, one year after the Soviets launched Laika. Gordo's capsule was never found in the Atlantic Ocean. He died on splashdown when a flotation mechanism failed, but Navy doctors said signals on his respiration and heartbeat proved humans could withstand a similar trip."

Etymology

Deverbal from splash down.

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