Contact
Both words in one sentence
- Inverted with the aerobraking maneuver in 2010: The Year We Make Contact, used to reduce the Leonov's speed so it can enter Jupiter's orbit.
Source: Spaceship Slingshot Stunt - The AIM-4's seeker had a wider field of view than the Sidewinder's - but unfortunately it was too wide; the Falcon could lock on to targets that it couldn't maneuver to hit and lacked a proximity fuse, meaning that it required a direct contact hit of an enemy aircraft.
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Maneuver and Contact. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/contact/maneuver
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