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capsule

[kap-suhl, -sool, -syool] / ˈkæp səl, -sul, -syul /


NOUN
tablet, usually medicine
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And even “The Lost Boys,” perhaps the most ambitious new musical of the season, takes its inspiration from a cult genre film that serves as a time capsule of the wicked 1980s.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Early in the ascent, mission controllers deliberately triggered an escape system that pulled an unmanned Mengzhou capsule away from the rocket.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

Taxpayers deserve a break after sinking $70 billion into an Artemis launch and capsule system that’s already obsolete.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Then he could have released an image of himself in the Artemis space capsule and told us he’s an astronaut and he’s thinking of building a string of Trump hotels on the moon.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

For example, in addition to understanding the spacecraft’s automatic control panel, he was taught how to manually control the capsule in the event that the automatic controls failed.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson




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