The cylindrical module, which has a diameter of 4.5 m (14.8 feet), contains state-of-the-art scientific equipment.

Lawrence caught sight of a narrow bandoleer, with some kind of cylindrical electronic modules slotted into hoops.

The spacecraft would be modular, and the main living area would be three identical 300 feet (91.4 m) wide and long cylindrical modules.

Diagnostic Laboratory Spacelab is a cylindrical module, 22 feet long and 16 feet wide, tucked into the aft end of the shuttle's cargo bay.

Spacehab's cylindrical module, measuring 36 feet long and 12 feet in diameter, is set to be launched in 2003 on a Russian rocket.

Scotty crouched beside one of the cylindrical modules that made up the shaft, which had been pulled out and now rested on a maintenance dolly.

The 10.5m-long, cylindrical module will be unmanned for the time being, but the country's astronauts, or yuhangyuans, are expected to visit it next year.

It consisted of a bulky cylindrical module mounted above a trio of squat engine bells.

The laboratory is a cylindrical module with two end cones.

Her main hull was a blunt-nosed cylindrical module about the same size as a single nacelle from an old Ambassador-class ship.