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The steeper, hotter trajectory also gave the capsule less range to maneuver away from bad weather near the Pacific splashdown zone.
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Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026
Dozens of people inside the museum, near its information desk, sat on the floor in front of a smaller screen to watch the splashdown.
—Paris Barraza, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2026
Some have played a direct role in the Artemis II mission, which did a flyby of the moon and is set to return to Earth with a splashdown Friday evening in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego.
—Brandon Lingle, Austin American Statesman, 10 Apr. 2026
The accusations against Swalwell would usually be covered wall-to-wall on cable news, but the successful splashdown of NASA’s Artemis II dominated CNN, MS Now, Fox News and the BBC this evening.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2026
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Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026
Dozens of people inside the museum, near its information desk, sat on the floor in front of a smaller screen to watch the splashdown.
—Paris Barraza, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2026
Some have played a direct role in the Artemis II mission, which did a flyby of the moon and is set to return to Earth with a splashdown Friday evening in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego.
—Brandon Lingle, Austin American Statesman, 10 Apr. 2026
The accusations against Swalwell would usually be covered wall-to-wall on cable news, but the successful splashdown of NASA’s Artemis II dominated CNN, MS Now, Fox News and the BBC this evening.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for splashdown
landing
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In March, shortly after the Da Nang landing, an Assistant Secretary of Defense, John McNaughton, wrote a memo assigning relative weights to American objectives in Vietnam.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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An imposing ship built to wage war docked in San Diego on Saturday morning in the name of peace and human exploration, delivering the capsule that Artemis II astronauts rode to a flawless landing a day earlier.—
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Apr. 2026
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“Splashdown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/splashdown. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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