Today I did some pretty cool stuff at work. Since I'm working on Orion, sometimes the best example of how to do things is just go look at how Apollo did it. The Apollo 17 Command Module (owned by the Smithsonian) is on permanent display at the JSC visitor center, so the astronaut I've been working with setup with them to let us get in and take a look. I actually got to climb into the sucker to get a view from the seat out the window for the hardware. Really cool although incredibly cramped and hard to get in/out of.

We also had a fit check for the hardware in the Orion mockup in Building 9 today. What a difference 40 years makes. People may call Orion "Apollo 2.0" but the similarities end at the hatch. Orion actually has space to get in and out of and can fit way more people and equipment, mostly because your watch has more computing power than Apollo did and it fits on your wrist and not half the interior volume. Here's me in the Orion mockup too, we look a little cramped but that's just because we were in the seats to see out the windows again. Really there are two other people and loads of extra space when this was taken. Interesting to get in both on the same day though to really tell the difference in the two.