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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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For the Artemis II mission, these were printed on to the wiring inside 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

Ken’s, with lots of controls, looks like it could double as a space capsule.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2023

To retrieve the astronaut safely, we had to make sure that we understood the exact place and time that space capsule would touch down.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

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