Stardust then returned to Earth and released a special reentry capsule containing the material it had collected.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

The new capsule could also be used if astronauts need to leave the station in an emergency.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

The recovery of the Stardust capsule was difficult because of its high reentry speed.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

However, he never wanted to get close to a space capsule again.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

The capsule was traveling at almost forty-six thousand kilometers an hour.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

The capsule is very narrow, about fifty-three centimeters in diameter.

VOA: special.2011.08.12

They spent eleven tense minutes in the capsule.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

That cabin is a 14-ton spherical steel capsule only two meters in diameter, with a single,half-meter-wide circular plastic window for viewing.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

Some shuttle workers had hoped to get jobs developing a rocket and capsule to take astronauts back to the Moon by 2020.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

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.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20