I think you've got to be misunderstanding! I would never believe a 6 ton vehicle of this type could possibly hold 8 people.
Yeah, HL-10, HL-20 and HL-42 all seem VERY light for their purported capability.
It is interesting to say the least.
Then you cite the volume in cubic feet. If Gemini was 90 cf, I would flatly state that at least 45 cf must be allotted each crewman. You can't go lower than Gemini on crew volume! Everyone agrees it was very compact--many dispute this was a bad thing, since they say Apollo crew got space sick because of the vast boundless space afforded them but the tight-packed Gemini crews were fine. But I don't think anyone suggests that they could have got along fine with even less volume!
Well, assuming both pictures are of the same vehicle, I'd say that the habitable volume of the D/3 was somewhere around 250 ft3 +/- 100 ft3 or so...
So maybe it could just about fit 8 men...
You've probably heard me talk about my uncle, right? He was commanding officer of a SAC team sent into the silo of the Titan missile that blew up in 1980 Arkansas.
I've heard the story - I hadn't remembered it was in 1980!
I've always gotten the sense that the level of pollution caused by the American strategic military complex (particularly the bomb making, the hypergolic missiles, the solid fuel missiles and the underlying R&D and production efforts) are far, far worse than is generally spoken of. It makes me wonder if, had the US collapsed in 1991 and the Soviet Union survived, Florida would be spoken of in the same way as we speak about Kazakhstan now...
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