Designing the World's Tiniest Manned Suborbital Vehicle

cylonlover writes, quoting Gizmag: "Generally speaking, companies developing suborbital manned vehicles brag about how much elbow room their spacecraft will provide passengers. They say there will be plenty of room to float around during the weightless portion of the flight, that there will be no fighting for windows, that passengers will comfortably endure the high-g portions of the flight ... and then there's Copenhagen Suborbitals' Tycho Brahe. CS's Tycho Brahe is a one-passenger capsule intended for a purely ballistic flight to a peak altitude approaching 100 miles. The passenger is just along for the ride, with no mechanism to steer or otherwise pilot the capsule."

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Re:Americans need not apply

[BradleyUffner]

an average adult male build and a weight of 70 kg (154 lbs)

Americans need not apply. This is "SMART CAR" sized not "SUV" sized.

That's "average"? Last time I had a physical my doctor said I was UNDER weight at 165lbs. Maybe the average weight of an adult male midget.

Re:Americans need not apply

[element-o.p.]

BMI is a horrible way to determine fitness. Muscle mass is more dense than fat, and therefore, athletes tend to have more weight per unit of volume than the typical couch potato. BMI does not take that into account.