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.
迈阿密（美国有线电视新闻网）—— 美国航空航天局周二宣布，宇航局正在开发一个可以载人到深太空的太空舱，计划回归以前进行的那些太空计划。
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，两名俄罗斯和一名美国宇航员中止了他们返回地球的行程。因为他们的太空船没有成功与国际空间站分离。
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.
不同于相对地紧紧贴近在地球的航天飞机，太空发射系统发射载人太空舱进入太空深处。

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