Skip reentry is a reentry technique involving successive "skips" off the atmosphere to slow the spacecraft to a reasonable speed before entering, which greatly decreases the huge amount of heat that is usually generated on faster descents. It is difficult to predict how many skips will be needed before reentry with this technique, which makes it hard to plan for the final landing.
Example Usage of reentry
crime_economist: NPR story about a former prisoner involved in a church-based reentry program: http://bit.ly/6b1SEI
jasonwicker: Mouse #4 caught last night by my mousers. I'm flushing them now, rather than freeing them outside. The sewer should make reentry less likely
