The New Mexico Museum of Space History has a Mercury capsule you can sit in. Even with most of the equipment removed (just the control panel and a bench) it's i

The New Mexico Museum of Space History has a Mercury capsule you can sit in. Even with most of the equipment removed (just the control panel and a bench) it's incredibly claustrophobic. To be strapped into that thing with full equipment, in a flight suit, on your back over tons of explosives, and launched into space for day or even a few minutes...I can't imagine.