Talk:Splashdown

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).

[edit] What is "miss distance"?

Hi,

what does the column "miss distance" mean? Is this the distance between recovery ship and splashdown point?

Thanks, Max

Along the same lines, why does Gemini 2 say that

  • " The landing was 26 km short of the planned impact point, and 84 km from the recovery aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Lake Champlain."

whereas this article says that its "miss distance was 38 km? Gene Nygaard 01:33, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Caribbean or Atlantic?

The first map is captioned Caribbean splashdown locations of American spacecraft. Although a few of the splashdowns were near one of the Caribbean islands none of them were in the Caribbean Sea.

I think that this map would be more accurately captioned as Atlantic splashdown locations of American spacecraft.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../s/p/l/Talk%7ESplashdown_14f2.html"