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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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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

The space capsule atop the rocket separated and went into orbit eight minutes after the launch and began a two-day, 34-orbit trip to the space station.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2024

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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