Space Capsule
A space capsule is a Space engine inhabited or not, not-reusable. Before the first flight of the Space shuttle, it was the only means of sending Homme S in the space, then to bring back them on ground.
Currently (January 2007), only five countries control the design of the space capsules: Russia, the United States and, more recently, the European Union, the China and the India. To date, except for India, these powers have succeeds in placing the human ones in orbit and bringing back them on Earth.
Space capsules by country
Russia
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Sputnik-2 (without system of re-entry in the atmosphere);
- Vostok (capsule in particular used by Youri Gagarine during the first manned space flight);
- Voskhod (two launchings before the abandonment of the program);
- Soyuz (since 1967, four evolutions of the capsule followed one another so far).
The United States
European Union ESA
- Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator (project ARD)
- Crew Space Transportation System (CSTS) in collaboration with the Russian space agency.
China
- Shenzhou
India
- Space Capsules Recovery Experiment (SRE)
See too
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