Capsule

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Capsule

1. A boxlike component or unit, often sealed. See aneroid.
2. A small, sealed, pressurized cabin with an internal environment which will support life in a man or animal during extremely high altitude flight, space flight, or emergency escape. See ejection capsule.
The term spacecraft is preferred to capsule for any man-carrying vehicle.
3. A container carried on a rocket or spacecraft, as an instrument capsule holding instruments intended to be recovered after a flight.

References

This article is based on NASA's Dictionary of Technical Terms for Aerospace Use