This original capsule contained a battery and a transistor oscillator and was about 1 cm. in diameter.

While the Mercury capsule could only support one astronaut on a limited Earth orbital mission, the Apollo spacecraft was to be able to carry three astronauts on a circumlunar flight and eventually to a lunar landing.

He served on the support crew of Apollo 10 and was a capsule communicator for Apollo 11.

When the wake-up call was issued to the Apollo 16 crew for their final day in space by capsule communicator Tony England, the spacecraft was about out from Earth, traveling just over.

However, the Soviet Union was fiercely competitive in holding the early lead it had gained in manned spaceflight, so the Soviet Communist Party, led by Nikita Khrushchev, ordered the hasty conversion of its single-pilot Vostok capsule into a two-or three-person craft named Voskhod, in order to compete with Gemini and Apollo.

It was found that these “ ghosts ” could adsorb to bacteria that were susceptible to T2, even though they contained no DNA and were simply the remains of the original bacterial capsule.

The principal feature of the capsule magazine was that instead of being a straight box protruding below the stock of the rifle, it wrapped around the bolt action.

It was also possible to exit the capsule through the nose cone.

A separate fragment of the Orgueil meteorite ( kept in a sealed glass jar since its discovery ) was found in 1965 to have a seed capsule embedded in it, whilst the original glassy layer on the outside remained undisturbed.

The Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment, which was developed by the Planetary Society, intended to send selected microorganisms on a three-year interplanetary round-trip in a small capsule aboard the Russian Fobos-Grunt spacecraft in 2011.

Pneumatic capsule transportation was originally invented by William Murdoch.

Though a marvel of the time, and a successful sideshow, it was considered little more than a novelty until the invention of the capsule in 1836.

During the construction of the conservatory a time capsule was buried containing the seeds of basic crops and endangered plant species and key publications on conservation.

Studies generally looked at platforms launched by the Saturn V, followed up by crews launched on Saturn IB using an Project Apollo | Apollo Command / Service Module, or a Gemini capsule on a Titan II-C, the latter being much less expensive in the case where cargo was not needed.

The station was the same diameter as a Titan II upper stage, and would be launched with the crew riding atop in a modified Gemini capsule with a hatch cut into the heat shield on the bottom of the capsule.

He was dropped near Littleport Cambridgeshire on 16 December 1942 equipped with wireless, pistol, cyanide capsule and ₤ 1, 000.

It was the first time in USPO history that the design was actually spread over two stamps ( one which featured White, the other his Gemini capsule, the two connected by a tether ), which was considered befitting the " twins " aspect of the Gemini mission.

The school was built in 1935 and had a 75 year anniversary in 2010, this event was attended by many past, current and future students and staff and a time capsule was buried on the day.

* Within the foundations of the Dome in 1998, a time capsule was buried by Katy Hill and Richard Bacon, two of the then current presenters of the long running BBC children's programme Blue Peter.

Between 1961 and 1994 the USSR launched perhaps 500 Zenit film-return satellites, which returned both the film and the camera to earth in a pressurized capsule.

Among these craft was Stardust, which flew past Comet Wild 2 in 2004, and returned a capsule of the comet's remains to Earth in January 2006.

The primary mission was successfully completed on January 15, 2006, when the sample return capsule returned to Earth.

Following completion of the collection phase, the collector arrays were stowed in a sample return capsule, and the spacecraft returned to Earth.

They returned to earth in the capsule they came in on 5 July.

The cosmonauts began powering down the station on 7 February and they returned to Earth in the Soyuz capsule two days later.

On November 4, 1994, Malenchenko, Musabayev and Ulf Merbold returned to Earth aboard their Soyuz capsule after landing 88 km northeast of Arkalyk.

Launched in 1999, it successfully collected samples between 2000 – 2004, then the sample return capsule returned to Earth on Jan. 15, 2006.

Owen Garriott was at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for the launch of his son and was in attendance when a Soyuz capsule returned with his son 12 days later.

The sample capsule was returned to Earth and landed at Woomera, South Australia on 13 June 2010, around 13: 51 UTC ( 23: 21 local ).

On February 29, 1996, Gidzenko returned to Earth on board the Soyuz TM-22 capsule which landed at 10: 42 UTC, 105 km northeast of Arkalyk.

On September 2, 1996, Onufriyenko, Usachev and Claudie André-Deshays returned to Earth on board the Soyuz TM-23 capsule.

He returned to Earth on board the Soyuz TM-28 capsule on February 28, 1999.

For 51 min on May 17, 1969, while the capsule was suspended from the parachute, data from the Venusian atmosphere were returned.

Tokarev, McArthur and Brazilian spaceflight participant Marcos Pontes returned to Earth inside the Soyuz TMA-7 capsule on April 8, 2006 at 23: 48 UTC.

On September 2, 1996, Usachov, Yuri Onufriyenko and Claudie André-Deshays returned to Earth on board the Soyuz TM-23 capsule.

On October 21, he returned to Earth inside the Soyuz TMA-10 capsule after spending 196 days and 17 hours in space.

The animals were thus still in the intact capsule when it returned to the surface.

SpaceX became the first private company to successfully launch and return a spacecraft from orbit on 8 December 2010, after its Dragon capsule returned from a two-orbit flight.

The Soyuz 30 crew packed their experiments into their capsule and returned to earth 5 July, landing in a Rostov state farm field 300 km west of Tselinograd.

For 53 minutes on May 16, 1969, while the capsule was suspended from the parachute, data from the Venusian atmosphere were returned.

A copper time capsule that had been buried in 1914 was opened, providing some period artifacts, such as newspapers ; after examination, they, along with additional contemporary items, were returned to the capsule and reburied under the new monument, three miles south of Deadwood on the rebuilt Highway 85.

After going through an implant station, he taught, the thetan was put in a capsule and returned to Earth, where it would seek an infant to indwell.