ballistic capsule การใช้
- By 1958, the space plane concepts were eliminated in favor of the ballistic capsule.
- The proposed MOOSE system would have used a one-man inflatable ballistic capsule as an emergency astronaut entry vehicle.
- However, as NASA moved to ballistic capsules during Project Mercury, funding for research into winged vehicles slowly disappeared, and LACE along with it.
- However, as NASA moved to ballistic capsules during Project Mercury, funding for research into winged vehicles slowly disappeared, and LACE work along with it.
- ;Payload Retrieval System : The PARES would have included a small ballistic capsule similar to VBK-Raduga embedded into the ATV docking interface, which would have brought back a few tens of kilograms of payload.
- The engineers who mothered Little Joe to maturity knew it was not much to look at, but they hoped that their ungainly rocket would prove the legitimacy of most of the ballistic capsule design concepts, thereby earning its own honor.