Opening lines about capsule’s ultimate return to Earth? (2-5)
I believe the answer is:
re-entry
'opening lines about capsule's ultimate return to earth?' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'about capsule's ultimate return to earth?' is the wordplay.
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'capsule's' becomes 'retry' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'ultimate' suggests the final letters.
'to' says to put letters next to each other (I've seen this in other clues).
'earth?' becomes 'E'.
The final letter of 'return' is 'n'.
'n' put after 'e' is 'en'.
'retry' placed around 'en' is 'RE-ENTRY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for re-entry that I've seen before include "Return from outer space" , "Hitting earth's atmosphere again" , "A spacecraft's track coming back into atmosphere" , "Spacecraft's return phase" , "Return of a spacecraft to the earth's atmosphere" .)