Passenger capacity of the X-20 Dyna Soar: part 3

aircraft, projects, spacecraft

Jul 092008

Shown below is a photo of indifferent quality from a Boeing report showing a 4-seat Dyna Soar payload bay with two real live astronauts in Dyna Soar space suits. The two astronauts are apparently Henry Gordon and William Knight. It looks somewhat less than entirely comfortable, but they both clearly fit.

3 Responses to “Passenger capacity of the X-20 Dyna Soar: part 3”

Michel Van says:

July 10, 2008 at 6:33 am

I had the chance to see a Soyuz capsule in german Museum of Technic in Munich.

that a damned small Tin can were they squeeze 3 kosmonaut in it !
over your head is the big parachute canister left and right supply suff or ISS

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/66747main_exp10_crew_launch.jpg
http://www.energia.ru/rus/iss/iss17/im/photo_03-27-18.jpg
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k166/suzymchale/mars-center/soyuz-inside-front.jpg

against the russian tin can the 4-seat Dyna Soar a first class flight to space 😉
Bruce says:

December 19, 2009 at 6:44 am

I read Suzy Mchale”s blogs too. She has some good stuff on russian
rocketry if anyone is interested at suzymchale.com. Through her blog
I also knew the new Avatar movie was coming out a couple months ahead of time. If you google atronautix.com there is some vey good space
stuff with some of the sites.
carmelo says:

December 20, 2009 at 10:28 am

But we have ejection seats for passengers too?
And the space for access to transer tunnel where is?

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