Sentence examples for shell spacecraft from inspiring English sources
The Command Module was named Columbia after the Columbiad, the giant cannon shell "spacecraft" fired by a giant cannon (also from Florida) in Jules Verne's 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon.
The shell of the spacecraft must be able to endure heavy loads and intense vibrations.
Astronauts travelling outside the magnetosphere, however, have to rely on the shell of their spacecraft to protect them from danger.
The project aims at analyzing the propagation of shocks due to hypervelocity impacts from the external shell of a spacecraft to its internal components.
In the impact test of the simulated emission, when the shell material of a spacecraft stern compartment was improved from Aluminum alloy 2A14 to composites, several stern compartments axially cracked at the right connection hole of the engine vice joint.
In the mid-1980s the space agency was looking to strengthen the shell of its Mars spacecraft.
The results have been compared to the protective character of different materials potentially usable as a habitat's structural shell and for interplanetary spacecrafts.
The Ansari X Prize paid out $10 million 26spacecraft contestants shelled out $100 million competing for the purse.
The information was used to design the outer shell of the manned Apollo spacecraft to prevent penetration of such high-speed particles of space dust.
While scientists are confident about their findings, NASA says the only way to confirm them is if a spacecraft were to explore the shell.
