NASA's Mercury 7 space capsule piloted by Gus Grissom was found and recovered in 1999.
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He climbed out of the car creakily, as if out of a space capsule after an interplanetary voyage.
In 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first inhabited space capsule, Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika.
Hanks points to a box and proudly says the computer onboard the space capsule contains a megabyte...a whole megabyte!
Industry officials said in recent weeks plans to use a heavy-lift rocket and space capsule supplied by SpaceX, imploded.
Next week, Space Exploration Technologies plans to test-fly a space capsule called Dragon.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launched the Dragon space capsule on Sunday.
So for five years after the shuttle's retirement in 2010, American astronauts will be dependent on Russia to fly them into orbit on their space capsule, Soyuz.
And Tracy Caldwell Dyson, who lived aboard the station for 174 days in 2010, pops up a few different times lip synching from inside a space capsule.
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Last year, he hired undersea experts to scan the ocean floor to find the massive engines that propelled the Apollo 11's space capsule from Earth to outer space.
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At the same time, the agency is working with its industry contractors to develop a heavy-lift rocket and space capsule to take Americans beyond Earth orbit to an asteroid and ultimately Mars.
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KOROLYOV, Russia (Reuters) -- A Russian space capsule docked with the orbiting station Mir on Monday to allow a joint Russian-French-Slovak crew to embark on what could be the last mission to the aging craft.
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"Each meteorite is a time capsule and space probe recording the history of our solar system from 4.5 billion years ago, " said Caroline Smith, curator of meteorites at London's Natural History Museum.
This time, Dragon capsule's sensors, navigation computers and automated propulsion system, never before fully tested in the harsh environment of space, are supposed to maneuver the capsule in a weightless ballet to within 1.5 miles of the space station and then maintain control as Dragon drifts closer.
Meanwhile, NASA is developing a huge rocket called the Space Launch System and a capsule known as Orion to carry astronauts to a near-Earth asteroid by 2025 and the vicinity of Mars by the mid-2030s goals laid out by Obama in 2010.
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Even if NASA elects to merge the two remaining test launches, it will still need to spend more money than it was originally planning to verify that Falcon 9 and the Dragon capsule are suitable for space-station operations.
The privately-owned capsule successfully berthed with the space station at 8:56 am EST.
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The completion of the PDR paves the way for the US space agency to start to build the capsule for flight.
Dragon's rendezvous systems had never been tested before in the harsh conditions of space, with the station and the capsule racing around the Earth in tandem at about 17, 000 miles an hour.
At 9:03 am ET this morning, the SpaceX Dragon capsule successfully berthed with the International Space Station.
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Mr. Musk's team hopes to use a version of the same capsule to transport astronauts to the space station as early as 2017.
That would come when NASA redesigned its spacesuit for the first mission of the Orion capsule scheduled to fly to the space station in 2014.
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We believe it has power-generating capacity which, based on the two sets of panels, that probably makes it comparable to the old Mir space station as opposed to simply the Soyuz capsule.
We also reached a critically important milestone in May when SpaceX became the first private company to send a spacecraft -- the Dragon cargo capsule -- to the International Space Station and return it with cargo intact.
This conical capsule will take astronauts much deeper into space, beyond the station to destinations such as asteroids, the Moon and even Mars.
While NASA works with U.S. industry partners to develop these capabilities, the agency also is developing the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System (SLS), a crew capsule and heavy-lift rocket to provide an entirely new capability for human exploration.
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The successful splashdown Thursday of SpaceX's Dragon capsule, the world's first commercial space cargo ship, is drawing high praise from spaceflight experts and lawmakers alike.
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The Operations and Checkout building will soon serve as the final assembly facility for the Orion capsule during NASA's next phase of space exploration, the Constellation program.
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