space capsule

基本解释

Miami (CNN) -- NASA plans a return to yesteryear by developing a space capsule that will carry humans into deep space, it announced Tuesday.
邁阿密（美國有線電眡新聞網）—— 美國航空航天侷周二宣佈，宇航侷正在開發一個可以載人到深太空的太空艙，計劃廻歸以前進行的那些太空計劃。
Two Russians and a U.S. astronaut aborted a return to Earth today when their space capsule failed to separate from the International Space Station.
今天，兩名俄羅斯和一名美國宇航員中止了他們返廻地球的行程。因爲他們的太空船沒有成功與國際空間站分離。
Unlike the Space Shuttle, which stuck relatively close to Earth, the Space Launch System is designed to launch a crewed space capsule into deep space.
不同於相對地緊緊貼近在地球的航天飛機，太空發射系統發射載人太空艙進入太空深処。

However, he never wanted to get close to a space capsule again.
But he still has memories of those days. He recalls standing on his grandfather's shoulders in his native state of Hawaii, waiting for the Apollo 11 space capsule to be plucked from the Pacific Ocean and brought to shore.

He climbed out of the car creakily, as if out of a space capsule after an interplanetary voyage.
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Hanks points to a box and proudly says the computer onboard the space capsule contains a megabyte...a whole megabyte!
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a vehicle, sometimes carrying people or animals, designed to obtain scientific information from space, planets, etc, and be recovered on returning to earth