[dogma1138]

Kinda makes you wonder if it's not overly wasteful, the Soyuz capsule has almost no room to move in when all 3 passengers are seated, you need to crawl past the emergency parachutes (which are located inside the capsule).

Every system has a direct mechanical/elctro-mechanical connection override in case of an emergency and every thing is redundant to the point of mechanically operating the heat deflector and opening the chutes.

Touch screens and capacitive buttons are nice but that capsule has more room than an SUV while every other spacecraft we had had less leg room than flying coach so would be interesting to see what they've had to give up to get that.

[arrrg]

Soyuz has more room in the orbit module. What you see in those Soyuz photos is not all the room there is, at least on orbit, if not during the trip through the atmosphere.

The ride to and from orbit itself doesn’t take that long (measured in minutes) and indeed doesn’t really require a lot of space for human passengers. The space is for the rest of the journey, which normally also should go by quickly (a couple hours), at least with the modern approach they use to get to the ISS, but can take longer depending on the exact circumstances (a couple days). The recent Soyuz trip to the ISS took two days instead of a couple hours because ISS had just completed an obviously unplanned debris avoidance maneuver.

[dogma1138]

I know but the orbit module doesn't go through re-entry it was also designed to either bring cargo or serve as temporary living / scientific quarters when the Soyuz was used for manned orbital flight rather than a ferry to Mir or to the ISS.

But and it's a big but the space is separated which means a great deal this means that the Soyuz orbital module can be used to bring cargo to the ISS the space in the Dragon capsule is really just wasted, there's no way there will be cargo in there no matter how well tied down during lift off no human flight program ever had anything in the cabin that wasn't a part of the space craft or needed for life support / emergency, so it's still a bloody waste of space.