Sentence examples for landing capsule from inspiring English sources

The Russian landing capsule touched down about 30 miles northeast of Arkalyk at 3 47 a.m.

Pictures from Luna 9 revealed the soft, rubbly nature of the regolith and, because the landing capsule did not sink out of sight, confirmed its approximate bearing strength.

Worried about the weight of their landing capsule, the harried lunar explorers left behind tons of trash, including empty food bags, electrical equipment and, yes, several receptacles meant for bodily waste.

The most controversial element of the president's plan is his proposal to scrap NASA's mostly Moon-related technology programs that have been working to develop two new rockets, a new space capsule, a lunar landing capsule and systems for living on the lunar surface.

The landing capsule will become an environmental monitoring station whereas the rover will search for signs of past or present life on Mars.

For 24 hours, while mission control frantically reprogrammed the on-board systems in preparation for another landing attempt, Ahad and Lyakhov were orbiting the Earth alone in their tiny landing capsule.

And to simulate what it'll be like to successfully land a capsule on that cold rock, one NASA-backed company is using a small-fry quadcopter to refine its lunar-landing test rig.

Kenneth D. Bowersox of the Navy and Donald R. Pettit, and the Russian flight engineer Nikolai M. Budarin -- are to return to earth in a Soyuz capsule, landing on May 4 in Kazakhstan not far from the site of today's launching.

But do you have a sense that there is a particular landing process or capsule improvements that an engineer could have or should have invoked to get Grissom out of the capsule safely?

There was an attempt to safely land a space capsule from lower earth orbit into the sea and the man nearly drowned.

When the search party makes its emergency landing in a capsule attached to airbag balloons, they endure a terrible jouncing as it rolls down a steep, craggy mountain.