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They can move around after they switch from launch to spaceflight config. Apparently they also have some exercise gear for the journey.

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It is just the capsule though? There's no stage under them/another cylinder? Module

Trying to imagine how big the thing is like 10x10 feet room

Just the capsule - there is a module but it can’t be reached and is for more engines that they will leave behind.

ABC News says 330 habitable cubic feet or about the interior space of two minivans.

> ABC News says 330 habitable cubic feet or about the interior space of two minivans

I did lockdown in a ~450 sq. ft. Habitable under 400. Partner. Cat. Me. The astronauts will be fine.

~450 square feet, with how many feet in the third dimension? You probably had an order of magnitude more volume than 330 cubic feet there.

> You probably had an order of magnitude more volume than 330 cubic feet there

I’m 6’, so that’s the usable volume. (I’m not claustrophobic heighwise.)

I honestly don’t see an issue spending a couple days with folks I respect and admire in close quarters for ten days.

You don't get it. Your 400sqft apartment needs to be shrunk by a factor of 6 to have the same area as the Orion. Try living in an 8x8 foot square for a couple weeks.

> You don't get it

Have you ever been on a boat?

The boat you can step outside of, have a sky

> boat you can step outside of, have a sky

Not in a storm you can't! Granted I didn't do ten days. But I was with two other people for close to a week and it was...fine. We're old friends. There were moments it got annoying. But it was never boring or restrictive. We just played games, drank, looked out of the portholes, cursed hangovers and talked the one person who occasionally wanted to call it.

Yeah that sounds fun and closed spaces can be cozy too, at least especially when there isn't certain death outside

> Have you ever been on a boat?

What is a "boat"?

That’s unfair as well - in space, more of the volume is usable. Perhaps equivalent to 2X 1G volume would be fairer.

330 cubic feet =~ 9.3m²

A cube with an edge of 2.1 meters.

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