Spacecraft Interior?

[Ululuru]

Hi, i'm really interested in the different Spacecraft like the Space Shuttle, Soyuz, Apollo, ...
I'd love to see some high Quality pictures of the interiour.
I mean something like a virtual tour through those things.
But it does not have to be that, just more than pencil drawings. I want to know how the space inside looks, and for example how they slept in the Apollo LM.

Sorry for expressing myself so poorly, but english is not my mothertongue and i hope you know what i mean

 

[Grover]

your english is fine!

you'll struggle to find craft with full interiors, the best i can think of is the ISSU, but thats still in development

 

[River Crab]

The Smithsonian has very good panoramas, you can look all around the inside.
For some reason SpaceShipOne isn't on that page, but it's here.

Edit: Unless you meant Orbiter add-ons? AMSO also has nice VCs.

 

[Ululuru]

I forgot to say that i mean the real spacecraft ^^
For example, something like a mini "google streetview" kind of thing through the Space Shuttle. Not in Orbiter, I was googling but i hardly found anything useful.

Edit: Thanks River Crab, thats exactly what i was looking for!

 

[Unstung]

The spacecraft are pretty small spaces, of course. Google can easily find images of them:

http://www.apolloexplorer.co.uk/photo/img/AS12/10075358.jpg
http://www.helium.com/items/644056-how-astronauts-sleep-in-space
http://science.howstuffworks.com/sleep-in-space1.htm

Crewmen will spend much of their time on their couches, but they can leave them and move around. With the seat portion of the center couch folded, two astronauts can stand at the same time. The astronauts will sleep in two sleeping bags which are mounted beneath the left and right couches. The sleeping bags attach to the CM structure and have restrains so that a crewman can sleep either in or out of his space suit.

(All in English)

I remember a video tour of the ISS, but don't have the link.

 

[marooder86]

Space Shuttle but I haven't tried it. Here and here are some pictures of Soyuz interior. And first of all I think you should search in Google first. It's the quickest way to find what you need and what you're interested in. If you have not much idea how to search then try frases like: "vessel you're looking for cockpit picture" or "vessel you're looking for cockpit picture". Well, typing name or craft you're looking for and hit "Search graphics" will do as well:thumbup:.

 

[Ululuru]

Thanks, but the first two are the pictures i don't like. I can't imagine two grown man sleeping and equipment fitting into this little spacecraft in the first picture!

oh and i also saw that iss tour

 

[Lucy]

The best ISS tour I've seen is split into four parts;

 

[marooder86]

oh and i also saw that iss tour

Have you seen them all? Because I can assure you there are planty of them.

 

[River Crab]

NasaSpaceFlight: Soyuz interior pictures/videos

 

[Unstung]

The best ISS tour I've seen is split into four parts;

Ah, that's it.

 

[GoForPDI]

Lots of interior shots of the Apollo CM and Soyuz! (really good documentary too!)

 

[Turbinator]

Skylab:

 

[T.Neo]

I love Skylab. It's got such a grand open volume and it's really amazing to think that we fielded such a piece of equipment just after Apollo.

 

[Carmen A]

I like the Soyuz shown in the ISS tour featured on wikipedia.

It's so cosy and I'd like to squeeze inside the capsule to sleep

 

[GoForPDI]

Skylab was pretty awesome, one of the great things about it was that you could spin it round and use it as a centrefuge!

 

[Maquis]

Skylab was pretty awesome, one of the great things about it was that you could spin it round and use it as a centrefuge!

True, though Skylab was just a simplified version of much more ambitious project that never flew (thank You Mr. Nixon).

 

[Pyromaniac605]

I never realised how huge Skylab was, I'm just in awe at it's immense size. The people who crewed Skylab probably had the most space to float around in than anyone else to date. (In terms of how big it seems not actual volume)

 

[Urwumpe]

Skylab was pretty awesome, one of the great things about it was that you could spin it round and use it as a centrefuge!

Would take a while to spin it up like that, since it was gyroscope controlled.

 

[T.Neo]

I'm having trouble seeing how you could spin Skylab as a centrifuge... it would be pretty impractical since the telescope mount shifts the CG away from the cylinder centerline, the solar panels won't take well to it (both due to integrity and power generation issues), and spinning the station fast enough for appreciable acceleration would probably make a good deal of people sick.

More practical, and a whole huge lot of fun, is the "human hamster wheel" in the video... that is pretty awesome, I think it'd be really interesting to try that.