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space capsule

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noun

  1. a vehicle, sometimes carrying people or animals, designed to obtain scientific information from space, planets, etc, and be recovered on returning to earth

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More recently, he developed virtual reality software that allows people to experience life in a space capsule.

From New York Times

Last year, the first launch of a Long March 5B rocket lifted a prototype of China’s crewed space capsule.

From New York Times

SpaceX launched its third crew of astronauts to the International Space Station early Friday morning, reusing a Crew Dragon space capsule to fly humans for the first time.

From The Verge

Other machines in the museum’s space gallery include the Apollo-Soyuz Command Module and the Mercury MR-2 and Gemini 11 space capsules.

From Fox News

He became known as the “space age” designer, for jumpsuits that suggested space capsule uniforms and the three-tier dresses that encircled a figure like hovering saucers.

From Los Angeles Times