The only genuine parts of the whole televised event were the blast-off and splashdown. |
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First of all, can you tell us a little bit about the process and the sequence of events leading to the actual splashdown? |
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It records 2 frames a second from launch pad to splashdown, and it completely replaces existing technology. |
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The splashdown of Gemini 12 on November 15, 1966, marked the operational end of the Gemini program. |
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The only genuine parts of the whole televised event was the blast-off and splashdown. |
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The exact timing of the splashdown was yet unclear and depended on the state of the sun. |
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Huygens has been built to survive an impact both on hard ice or a splashdown in a sea of lighter fuel. |
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It looks like splashdown to me, and to everybody else in Suffolk as well. |
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He even proved uncannily accurate in anticipating the Florida launch site, Pacific Ocean splashdown, and recovery by U.S. naval forces of the Apollo missions. |
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An eastern site was preferred for Apollo 11, which would leave a western site for backup, but too far east would require a night splashdown on the return to Earth. |
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The aircraft then glided to a splashdown into the Pacific Ocean. |
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The explosive bolts on his capsule's hatch malfunctioned after splashdown, flooding and then sinking the spacecraft. |
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One did faint during a tilt table test about an hour after splashdown, but the other, tested about two hours after recovery, did not. |
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One recent attempt, in July, aimed at a soft splashdown in the ocean. |
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The mission ended on July 24 with splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. |
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After splashdown in the Pacific at 12 51 pm EDT on July 24, the three astronauts spent 18 days in quarantine to guard against possible contamination by lunar microbes. |
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In 1984 a massive theming and reconstruction of the west island saw the introduction of the Wilderness Adventure Ride, a fully automated flume ride complete with 40 foot splashdown. |
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During a normal operation of the Energia launcher, which speed does not stop increasing until orbiting, it flies according to the calculated trajectory and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. |
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