Indeed - if you have a refrigerator in wherever you are staying, by all means, take the excess with you to serve as a leftover snack for later. No one will be offended. There's no such thing as an American restaurant that doesn't have take-home containers for leftovers.
Glad you got to see and got so much out of the Air and Space Museum. Amazing stuff, yeah?
The Apollo Capsules were very small. But by the standards of the times they were luxurious to the astronauts. Many of whom had done missions in the Gemini capsules which had no real room in them to move around in and kept them confined to a single reclined position. And it's a good thing none of the Mercury astronauts had to fly for more than a single day, since those spacecraft were so tiny you practically -wore- them.
In Apollo, you could actually get out of the couches and move around. Astronauts could float full length in the space behind (under) the couches and there was an area forward of the main control panels leading to the docking tunnel to the Lunar Module. Consider that as cramped as it appears to be on the ground, that in space in weightlessness, an astronaut can float in any orientation and the effective "usable area" inside the capsule multiplies significantly.
Which is not to say that you want to stay in there any longer than absolutely necessary! The places tended to smell like locker rooms (and worse) by the end of the missions and the astronauts were only too glad to get out of them and get a bloody shower on board the recovery ship!
Glad you got to see and got so much out of the Air and Space Museum. Amazing stuff, yeah?
The Apollo Capsules were very small. But by the standards of the times they were luxurious to the astronauts. Many of whom had done missions in the Gemini capsules which had no real room in them to move around in and kept them confined to a single reclined position. And it's a good thing none of the Mercury astronauts had to fly for more than a single day, since those spacecraft were so tiny you practically -wore- them.
In Apollo, you could actually get out of the couches and move around. Astronauts could float full length in the space behind (under) the couches and there was an area forward of the main control panels leading to the docking tunnel to the Lunar Module. Consider that as cramped as it appears to be on the ground, that in space in weightlessness, an astronaut can float in any orientation and the effective "usable area" inside the capsule multiplies significantly.
Which is not to say that you want to stay in there any longer than absolutely necessary! The places tended to smell like locker rooms (and worse) by the end of the missions and the astronauts were only too glad to get out of them and get a bloody shower on board the recovery ship!