Sentence examples for successful touchdown from inspiring English sources

The world's media was transfixed by the Philae lander's successful touchdown on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in November.

Last week European scientists had their gaze fixed up in space and celebrated the successful touchdown of the Rosetta lander on Comet 67P.

"We made a successful touchdown, including firing a bullet" into the Ryugu asteroid, Yuichi Tsuda, Hayabusa 2 project manager, told reporters.

Landing was scheduled to occur at 10 31 p.m. Sunday here in Pasadena, though officials warned that confirmation of a successful touchdown could take several hours or even days.

Europe is poised to make its first successful touchdown on Mars on Wednesday, when its small robotic spacecraft connects with the planet's surface after an epic journey across the solar system.

But most of all because Arthur C Clarke once said that any sufficiently advanced technology would be indistinguishable from magic and on 8 April the successful touchdown of Flight 23's first stage looked a lot to me like magic.

Update: Launch and touchdown successful!

That attempt was nearly successful, with a touchdown at the appropriate velocity, but with a toppling of the rocket after the fact.

"The major factor in that scoring increase has been the increase in field goals and successful point-after-touchdown attempts," said David Nelson, secretary-rules editor of the committee in The NCAA News.

Heard this brought up recently with the almost automatic kicking of successful extra points after touchdowns:  how about making touchdowns worth 7 points and having the option of going for a 2-point conversion?

The odds of a successful return for a touchdown were over 100 to 1.