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escape capsule

escape capsule

A pressurized crew compartment that can be detached from the rest of the aircraft and parachute to the ground as a complete unit. It is in lieu of an ejection seat. However, its use is more in space vehicles rather than in aircraft.
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In October, an accident occurred minutes after the liftoff of a Soyuz-FG launch vehicle carrying the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft after which, an emergency escape capsule allowed the crew to return to Earth safely.
Soyuz Rocket installed on launch pad for first manned mission
7 ALIENS Saturday, Film4, 9pm AFTER 57 years drifting in space in deep sleep, Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is rescued from the escape capsule of the starship Nostromo.
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The space agency, which has experience in key challenges such as how to care for people in confined spaces, offered advice on how to design the miners' escape capsule, nicknamed "Phoenix," and the agency provided two doctors and a psychologist to help with the miners' healthcare and rescue.
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HERO: Rescuer Manuel Gonzalez Pavez is greeted by miners and Mario Sepulveda enters the cage SAFE: Miner Jimmy Sanchez is helped out of the capsule as he is rescued from the collapsed mine UP, UP AND AWAY: Mario Sepulveda, the second Chilean miner to leave the collapsed tunnel, is hoisted out in the high-tech escape capsule
They have been to hell and back but the nightmare could go on for years; FREE AT LAST: BUT ESCAPING COLLAPSED MINE IS JUST THE BEGINNING
SAN JOSE MINE: To hugs, cheers and tears, rescuers using a missile-like escape capsule began pulling 33 men one by one to fresh air and freedom at last early Wednesday, 69 days after they were trapped in a collapsed mine a half-mile underground.
Seventh of 33 men rescued from Chilean mine
First to be rescued with a missile-like escape capsule was Florencio Avalos.
RESCUE BEGINS; First of trapped miners are freed
Alberto Iturra, the chief of the psychology team advising the trapped men, decided that after each miner rides the escape capsule to daylight, the rescued man will meet with between one and three people whom the miner has personally designated.
UP THE TUBE; Rescue begins for Chile's trapped miners
Alberto Iturra, the chief of the psychology team advising the trapped men, has decided that after each miner rides an escape capsule to daylight, the rescued man will meet with between one and three people whom the miner has personally designated.
Disharmony amid hope for families
PLAN B CLEARED THE WAY FOR RESCUE THE Plan B drill won a three-way race to carve a hole wide enough for an escape capsule to pull the trapped miners out one by one.
I can see it.. it's through.. it's through -TRAPPED MAN; DRILL REACHES TRAPPED MINERS AFTER 33 DAYS: World delight as pit rescue draws nearer
The "Plan B" drill is just yards away from winning a three-way race to reach the miners with a hole wide enough to accommodate their escape capsule. "Plan A" and "Plan C" had to slow down after repeatedly veering off course in recent days.
Hopes rise for miners as escape shaft gets closer
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