Space Capsule
Boeing s starliner capsule will provide nasa with its transportation capabilities to low earth orbit to and from the international space station.
Space capsule. The trio of space travellers aboard russia s soyuz ms 17 spacecraft reached the international space station in a record time of just over three hours. A space capsule is an often crewed spacecraft that uses a blunt body reentry capsule to reenter the earth s atmosphere without wings. The soyuz capsule carrying a nasa astronaut and two cosmonauts docked to the iss at 4 48am eastern time after it blasted off from the baikonur.
Wtaj the huge steel object sitting in mark koch s front lawn on logan boulevard is not your ordinary halloween decoration. The commercial space company spacex is developing its dragon capsule to carry cargo and eventually people to orbit. The capsule when certified for human flight will carry up to six space tourists and researchers at a time on short sub orbital space trips high above earth.
At first glance it s the capsule. See photos technical specifications milestones and feature stories. Orion is nasa s new exploration spacecraft designed to carry astronauts to destinations in deep space including an asteroid and mars.