Reentry capsule
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A reentry capsule is the portion of a space capsule which returns to Earth following a spaceflight. The shape is determined partly by aerodynamics; a capsule is aerodynamically stable falling blunt en
Apollo 17 command module splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.
Soyuz TMA reentry capsule after landing, 2005
Artwork of Apollo command module flying with the blunt end of the heat shield at a non-zero angle of attack in order to establish a lifting entry and control the landing site
Soyuz TMA 7 spacecraft 2edit 1
Soyuz 11
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Soyuz 11 was the only crewed mission to board the world's first space station, Salyut 1. The crew – Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev – arrived at the space station on 7 June 1
Reentry capsule
…of the service module to separate similar to that on the Vostok 1 flight. Luckily, the service module was burned off and the capsule righted itself. Soyuz 11 ended in disaster in 1971 when an equalization valve, used to equalize air pressure during the Soyuz final descent, prematurely opened in the vacuum…
Left to right: Dobrovolsky, Volkov and PatsayevSoyuz programme← Soyuz 10Soyuz 12 →