space capsule

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   a spacecraft designed to transport people and support human life in outer space

   Synonymscapsule

   Broaderspacecraft

Questions about space capsule

What does space capsule mean?

space capsule means "a spacecraft designed to transport people and support human life in outer space".

What is another word for space capsule?

Close synonyms include capsule. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is space capsule a common word?

space capsule is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.