• Question: what is the largest amount of people taken into space at one time

    Asked by dat boi to Kirsty, Col Op, Charlie 🚀, Andrea on 22 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Kirsty Lindsay

      Kirsty Lindsay answered on 22 Jun 2016:

      Space Shuttle could carry the most amount of people- I think 8 was the biggest crew.

      Soyuz can carry 3 people, but it is a tight squeeze!

    • Photo: Andrea Boyd

      Andrea Boyd answered on 22 Jun 2016:

      on the old shuttles they took 7 usually, a few times 8.

      The first human space capsules just took 1 person.
      Then all the ones after that took 3 people.
      Soyuz has three seats and it’s the only way to get to and from space since 5 years ago so the current maximum and minimum is three! 🙂

      Inside the ISS we normally have a full crew of 6 people or a half crew of 3 people (because it’s the changeover week where three go back to Earth in their Soyuz and the next three launch in another Soyuz) but a few times for short special occasions we have had 9 people.
      (The ISS life support system is designed for 6 people)

      The maximum even on the ISS one time we once for a very short time had 13 people (when a shuttle was docked briefly).

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