Indeed, there's some neat old school diagrams showing how the capsule lift worked. It's a bit unintuitive at first, but if you have a blunt/rounded object trave

Indeed, there's some neat old school diagrams showing how the capsule lift worked. It's a bit unintuitive at first, but if you have a blunt/rounded object traversing the atmosphere at a few times the speed of sound, slightly shifting the CoM around and tilting/rolling the capsule can dramatically affect the landing site.