Sentence examples for capsule flight from inspiring English sources

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.

Footage taken within the capsule during flight is usually edited, showing a relaxed and apparently happy Ham.

SpaceX initially designed the Dragon capsule for flight near Earth, and Dragon has successfully flown many times to low-Earth orbit (LEO) and successfully returned the Dragon spacecraft to Earth.

But the failure of the capsule's flight controls, combined with a loss of communications and apparent parachute problems, underscored the razor's edge on which human space flight is teetering in the wake of the breakup of the space shuttle Columbia in February.

The other alleged incident involved an astronaut who was supposed to have gotten so drunk before flying in a Soyuz capsule that a flight surgeon sat in his room overnight because of concerns that his breathing might become impaired.

The Titan rocket has a mock fiberglass flight capsule, but the Atlas rocket was equipped by NASA with an original Mercury flight capsule used atop another rocket in a short unmanned flight in 1960 in Virginia to test an escape mechanism.

To show the capabilities of the developed framework, Orion reentry capsule with complete flight envelope is assumed as a sample.

"My postflight debriefings and reports," he added, "led, in turn, to important changes in capsule design and flight plans".

An inflatable jacket by the Belgian designer Walter van Beirendonck adds instant bulk and musculature to a man, while Hussein Chalayan's "Aeroplane Dress," made from fiberglass and nylon, has moveable wing flaps and presents the body as a kind of flight capsule.

Boeing solidified March as the date of its Starliner capsule's uncrewed test flight; the Chicago aerospace giant had previously said that flight would occur in late 2018 or early 2019.

Ground teams described the achievement as "epic" and "superb.'" Orbital Sciences launched the Cygnus capsule on this test flight from Virginia on September 18.