Sentence examples similar to touched down gently from inspiring English sources
For now it is just a question of whether the property airplane will touch down gently or land with a crash.
The control towers and ancillary buildings of each dock force you to stay alert until the moment you bring your ship in to touch down gently on the centre of the landing pad, when clamps grab the ship and your engines are powered down.
Like all landers, Schiaparelli's big challenge is to slow down: In the space of 6 minutes it must shed the speed of interplanetary travel (21,000 kilometers per hour), descend through 121 kilometers of atmosphere, and reach a slow enough pace to touch down gently on the surface.
Shortening the return trip was the easiest way to balance the requirements to deliver a heavy satellite at the high speed needed to reach a distant orbit, then put on the brakes, flip the first stage around, guide it through Earth's atmosphere, and get it to touch down gently on a barge measuring about 300 feet by 170 feet.
The main wheels should touch down gently.
Seconds later, though, the balloon touches down gently on the grass.
He drifted toward the ground as though floating in a parachute and gently touched down.
Never designed to land, the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft gently touched down on the a 33-kilometer-long asteroid on Monday (ScienceNOW, 12 February).
You could tell everyone was holding their breath with anticipation and fear until the center undercarriage settled safely on the runway and then as the nose-wheel gently touched down and we knew we were safe.
They touched down around lunchtime.
