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How to pronounce splashdown in English?

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Type of landing

Examples of splashdown

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If you are a swimming pool aficionado, The Valley Isle is your splashdown point.
From the ocregister.com
SplashDown Beach aspires, as its name suggests, to replicate a trip to the ocean.
From the nytimes.com
The splashdown marked the end a glittering era for the Russian space programme.
From the newscientist.com
The splashdown takes place after dark and is open to any level of certified diver.
From the denverpost.com
Skylab-3 ended with a Pacific Ocean splashdown and recovery by the USS New Orleans.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The pilots glide the jet to a splashdown in the Hudson River near Manhattan.
From the usatoday.com
They made a perfect splashdown in the Pacific some 830 miles southwest of San Diego.
From the time.com
The splashdown marked the triumphant end of NASA's remarkably fruitful Gemini program.
From the time.com
That landing, incidentally, is a thumpdown on the ground, not a splashdown in the ocean.
From the time.com
More examples
  • A landing of a spacecraft in the sea at the end of a space flight
  • Splashdown is a Hot Tuna album released in 1984 containing the tracks from a previously unreleased live acoustic performance that had been played on the short-lived radio station WQIV in the mid-1970s. ...
  • Splashdown, formed in Allston, Massachusetts, in 1996, was an American pop rock band. The group disbanded in 2001; their last show was at the release party for the debut CD of Freezepop on February 2 of that year. ...
  • "Splashdown" is the final episode of seaQuest DSV`s second season. It was originally shown on May 21, 1995; however, due to a preemption by NBC, it was not aired as the final episode of the season. ...
  • Splashdown is the method of landing a spacecraft by parachute in a body of water. It was used by American manned spacecraft prior to the Space Shuttle program. ...
  • Splashdown is a fictional character in the various Transformers universes.
  • Splashdown is a water racing game for Xbox and PlayStation 2. It can be played by one or two players. Splashdown is quite similar to Nintendo's Wave Race series. Players take control of a personal water-craft as they race against each other on various courses. ...
  • The landing of a seaplane, amphibious aircraft, or other airborne object (eg: space capsule) on a body of water, especially for discharge or recovery; also spelled "splash-down". See TOUCHDOWN, BOUNCE, LETDOWN, WINDSOCK.
  • Water-based superpowers; sucked into a vortex by his cape and went missing (according to his NSA file).