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    A space capsule is a spacecraft designed to transport cargo, scientific experiments, and/or astronauts to and from space. Capsules are distinguished from...
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    nations had sent six people into space, but the Soviets led the US in total time spent in space. The Mercury space capsule was produced by McDonnell Aircraft...
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    larger than either the Apollo command module or SpaceX Crew Dragon and smaller than the Artemis Orion capsule. Starliner can hold a crew of up to seven and...
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    capsule: Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Virginia TTV-2 paraglider capsule: Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh Gemini boilerplate: Air Force Space...
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    Crew Module (CM) space capsule designed by Lockheed Martin and the European Service Module (ESM) manufactured by Airbus Defence and Space. Capable of supporting...
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    original Dragon 1 used to carry freight to and from space. The spacecraft consists of a reusable space capsule and an expendable trunk module. The spacecraft...
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    Space Shuttle, through its Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) development program. The Dragon space capsule was a part of SpaceX's proposal...
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    Spacecraft (redirect from Space craft)
    orbital spacecraft were space capsules. Crewed spacecraft American Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft Soviet Vostok capsule Soviet Voskhod (variant...
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    capsule is the portion of a space capsule which returns to Earth following a spaceflight. The shape is determined partly by aerodynamics; a capsule is...
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    developing the New Shepard launch vehicle, a crew capsule was also needed, and design was begun on a space capsule in the early 2000s. One development milestone...
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    number of places where the astronauts had written on the walls of the capsule were found. These included a calendar and a warning about smelly waste...
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    repurposed for the Almaz military space station program. The VA capsule on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum was labeled as Merkur,...
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    Bowman's capsule (or the Bowman capsule, capsula glomeruli, or glomerular capsule) is a cup-like sac at the beginning of the tubular component of a nephron...
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  • build a large crewed vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing (VTVL) reusable space capsule, a much larger replacement for the Soyuz (spacecraft). The project was...
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    Early space programs Vostok space capsule (competitor against Mercury program) Voskhod 2 space capsule (competitor against the Gemini program) Space program...
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    crewed space missions began in 2007 with the 600-kilogram (1,300 lb) Space Capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE), launched using the Polar Satellite Launch...
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    and the first human orbital spaceflight in history. The Vostok 3KA space capsule was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 12 April 1961, with Soviet...
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    2012). "Space X Capsule Docks at Space Station". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 9 August 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2012. "SpaceX, In Another...
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    substantially over time. The first woman to fly in space was Soviet Valentina Tereshkova, aboard the Vostok 6 space capsule on June 16–19, 1963. Tereshkova was a textile-factory...
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    through uniting them together in the heavens. NASA named its two-person space capsule Project Gemini after the zodiac sign because the spacecraft could carry...
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    (23,000 m2) and displays over 400 space artifacts, including the Mercury 9, Gemini 5, and Apollo 17 space capsules. This artifact gallery includes three...
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  • Look up capsule in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Capsule may refer to: Articular capsule (joint capsule), an envelope surrounding a synovial joint Bacterial...
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  • The Exploration Company (category Proposed European Space Agency spacecraft)
    manufactures and operates the Nyx space capsule for space agencies and space stations as well as both space and non-space companies in other industries....
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    later that year. 30 May 2020 – SpaceX successfully launches a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Crew Dragon space capsule during the Demo-2 mission, marking...
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    its maiden crewed mission, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)'s largely autonomous 5.3-metric ton capsule will orbit the Earth at 400 km altitude...
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    the history of space flight. Visitors can operate flight simulators for landing the Space Shuttle as well as for docking a Gemini capsule and performing...
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    Lance Bass (category Space advocates)
    much publicized pursuit of a space tourism seat on a Soyuz space capsule. Bass was certified by both NASA and the Russian Space Program after several months...
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  • S-550 (redirect from S-550 Space capsule)
    The S-550 was a proposed crewed space capsule, designed in 2005-06 at Venturer Aerospace, in response to the NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services...
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    launch vehicle and trans-Martian injection vehicle, and the SpaceX Dragon 2-based capsule to enter the atmosphere of Mars. The concept was originally...
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    a vehicle designed for space travel. The concept has been used in science fiction and actual ships such as the Mercury capsule, Vostok and some suborbital...
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