Soft Landing

Soft landing may refer to:

  • Soft landing (flight), a type of landing, usually of a hot air balloon in descent by gradually reducing its buoyancy
  • Soft landing (rocketry), any landing which does not result in the destruction of the payload vehicle
  • Soft landing (economics), a business cycle downturn which avoids recession
  • Soft landing (chemistry), a process in chemical instrumentation

Famous quotes containing the words soft and/or landing:

    “Here they are. The soft eyes open.
    If they have lived in a wood
    It is a wood.
    If they have lived on plains
    It is grass rolling
    Under their feet forever.”
    —James Dickey (b. 1923)

    “I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will sing it; the historian record it; and, with the Landing of the Pilgrims and the Declaration of Independence, it will be the ornament of some future national gallery, when at least the present form of slavery shall be no more here. We shall then be at liberty to weep for Captain Brown. Then, and not till then, we will take our revenge.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)