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The interior design of the capsule looks so futuristic and cool - closer to Star Trek than Soyuz.
by dgritsko 6y ago
The interior design of the capsule looks so futuristic and cool - closer to Star Trek than Soyuz.
- ardy42 6y ago> The interior design of the capsule looks so futuristic and cool - closer to Star Trek than Soyuz. Too bad they didn't skin the touchscreen interface to look like LCARS. /s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCARS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCARS
- jedberg 6y agoThose space suits look so cool, don't they?
- q3k 6y agoI don't know, they look kitschy to me - as if someone designed them just to look 'cool' and futuristic instead of utilitarian, like a fashion statement.
- DennisP 6y agoAn astronaut on TV just said they're designed to be slim and do exactly what's needed in this case: emergency life support in case the capsule loses pressure. They're custom fit, they don't have a lot of doodads hanging off them, I'm guessing you wouldn't use them for a spacewalk, but for a launch they get the job done and don't take up a lot of room.
- jedberg 6y agoI think they're both. It feels like they went for utility, but also kept watching Kubrick's 2001 for inspiration.
- Melting_Harps 6y ago> Those space suits look so cool, don't they? That was the aim: https://www.inverse.com/innovation/spacex-crew-dragon-spacesuit https://www.inverse.com/innovation/spacex-crew-dragon-spaces... The Dragon's interior was also built with that in mind, its less NASA and more Hollywood, throw Ripley and Earth Plushy into the mix and this how you do get regular people into Space [1]. 1: http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-030219d-lg.jpg http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-030219d-lg.jpg
- f0xf1re 6y agoA stark contrast to Soyuz, which has numerous unfinished, sharp edges exposed inside the crew compartment.