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More than 70% of the Earth’s surface is water, meaning a 70% chance of a splashdown as opposed to a hard landing.
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Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 May 2025
Lovell recalls being belowdecks aboard the recovery vessel USS Wasp shortly after splashdown and being evaluated by a NASA psychologist.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 18 Mar. 2025
Moving splashdowns to the West Coast — along with jettisoning the trunk after Dragon's deorbit burn, to control the trunk's trajectory — will ensure that no debris could harm people or property, according to SpaceX; any that survives reentry will fall into the Pacific.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 5 Apr. 2025
Watch a video of the spacecraft’s splashdown off California’s coast on Friday after Wang and his crewmates — film director Jannicke Mikkelsen, robotics researcher Rabea Rogge and adventurer Eric Philips — spent 3.5 days in low-Earth orbit.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2025
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Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 May 2025
Lovell recalls being belowdecks aboard the recovery vessel USS Wasp shortly after splashdown and being evaluated by a NASA psychologist.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 18 Mar. 2025
Moving splashdowns to the West Coast — along with jettisoning the trunk after Dragon's deorbit burn, to control the trunk's trajectory — will ensure that no debris could harm people or property, according to SpaceX; any that survives reentry will fall into the Pacific.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 5 Apr. 2025
Watch a video of the spacecraft’s splashdown off California’s coast on Friday after Wang and his crewmates — film director Jannicke Mikkelsen, robotics researcher Rabea Rogge and adventurer Eric Philips — spent 3.5 days in low-Earth orbit.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for splashdown
landing
Noun
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While investors have their fingers crossed for a soft landing by the U.S. economy, how bad can things get if there is another recession?—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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And the makeup woman said, yes, her father had been on Juno, one of the British landings, but would never speak about it.—
Mike Ryan,
IndieWire,
27 May 2025
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“Splashdown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/splashdown. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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