“Space,” it says, “is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”
Calling the 1.70 m3 of habitable space inside a Mercury Capsule Module ‘space’ is a bit of stretch. Even the Space Station’s 837 m3 doesn’t, ahem, cut the mustard.
