a vehicle, sometimes carrying people or animals, designed to obtain scientific information from space, planets, etc, and be recovered on returning to earth
Examples of 'space capsule' in a sentence
space capsule
They're fitted for their space capsule seats.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Semi-circular and entirely glassed-in, it looks like a blue space capsule.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
How do you eat without filling the space capsule with blobs of salad dressing?
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
There is not enough air in the space capsule to keep the three astronauts alive.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Today's ascent will be made in a small pod, somewhat like a space capsule, carried up on a balloon.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
She talks about her friends as her heroes, whose faces 'are lining my space capsule that is hurtling through space'.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Sceptics question whether the animal or space capsule got back - or whether it was a hoax.
The Sun (2013)
It was first used on space capsules.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Chaos beckons but never arrives; fanciful as they are, these songs are tight as space capsules.