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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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In the video, the Oxford band showed a visit they had made to Nasa headquarters at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida - during which the band sat in the Orion space capsule.

From BBC Apr. 10, 2026

That was about five years after SpaceX sent astronauts Robert Behnken External link and Douglas Hurley External link there aboard a Dragon space capsule.

From Barron's Feb. 20, 2026

Lockheed-Martin is responsible for the Orion space capsule for Artemis II and III. Boeing and Blue Origin will continue to be major contributors to America’s space programs.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 8, 2026

Takei had other names for him, calling Shatner “a guinea pig” after the 90-year-old’s October flight aboard Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space capsule.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 30, 2022

But Hugh represented an earlier time at this school—before the space capsule landed and barfed up Cap Anderson.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

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