The phrase "astronaut capsule" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a spacecraft designed to transport astronauts into space and back to Earth.
Example: "The astronauts boarded the astronaut capsule before their historic launch into orbit."
Alternatives: "spacecraft" or "crew module".
And he was a board member of a company that has a contract to build engines for a new astronaut capsule.
NASA, under its Constellation program, is developing a new rocket called Ares I and a new astronaut capsule called Orion, and the system is to begin carrying astronauts to the International Space Station in March 2015.
Alongside an "atmospheric re-entry demonstrator", an experimental vehicle built by ESA to test future ideas such as an astronaut capsule, flight 503 has room for a 2.5-tonne satellite.
Mr. Oberg added that if the aft section had failed to come loose, the astronaut capsule's heat shield might have malfunctioned during atmospheric re-entry, perhaps letting spacecraft and passenger burn up.
America's new astronaut capsule has successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) as part of its demonstration mission.
America's new commercial astronaut capsule has completed its demonstration flight with a successful splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean.
Modern investigators, most with advanced gear, are probing the depths for vanished gold and astronaut capsules, Nazi cargo and the lost city of Atlantis.
ATK and Astrium say Liberty's ability to put about 20 tonnes in low-Earth orbit, the altitude occupied by the International Space Station, means it could loft any of the commercial astronaut capsules currently in development.
The first flights of the astronaut capsules built by Boeing Co. and SpaceX will be delayed until next year, according to an updated schedule released Thursday by NASA.
Unless you can find a company or group of companies that simplifies that problem, many digital gadgets you buy will gather just as much dust as that doll beauty parlor or astronaut space capsule you wanted so much for your 8th birthday.
Immediately after Challenger's explosion, the astronaut's capsule propelled away from the vehicle, piercing into the ocean.
