The HTV Return Vehicle (HRV) is a re-entry capsule with a blunt body that is being considered by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as a new space vehicle. The aerodynamic characteristics must be clarified for the HRV design and trajectory because of the capsule's dynamic instability at transonic. A single degree-of-freedom free-rotation test method in a wind tunnel was employed in a previous study. In this study, free flight tests of a re-entry lifting capsule were conducted in the JAXA HEK-G Ballistic Range. The motion in free flight was measured by four acceleration sensors for the pitching and yawing directions. The angular acceleration data from the tests under the same conditions are compared and discussed.