This is a six-minute "walk" across the ISS. I cannot believe how much space they have up there! (pardon the expression, them being in "space" and all :D )
Contrariwise, I'm intimately familiar with how much space they have, but am amazed at how much stuff they've crammed in it! It's positively claustrophobic in spots!
This gives one impression, while the 3-D IMAX movie they were running at Kennedy a year or so ago gives a very different impression. Yes - they have a very long run, and if you look at it, the total volume is starting to add up - but they don't have any single large volumes, where more than one axis is bigger than 3 or 4 meters. Part of this was the initial idea to only send up completed modules that would fit in the shuttle bay - they never send up say 8 segments stacked up that could then be fitted together on a space-walk, to create a larger room - which would be a good place to practice construction techniques and learning not to drop tools to get lost in space
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The whole Aries thing is still going back and forth and being fought out. I've actually been hoping that they get an Aries V going and someone decides to make a station module out of the uppermost tank - Skylab style. Though smaller overall due to how many modules are on the station Skylab had a HUGE single chamber due to the fact it was basically a Saturn V tank. Sure it's a pipe-dream, but it's at least possible.
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