SpaceX has shown off intriguing renders of the interior of the Human Landing Systems (HLS) variant of its enormous Starship spacecraft — and we can’t shake the feeling that it’s a surprisingly poor use of space.

NASA is hoping to tap the spacecraft during its Artemis 3 mission to return the first astronauts to the lunar surface in over half a century.

If SpaceX’s vision does come to fruition — a bit of an “if,” given its latest drama with NASA — astronauts would have a lot of room to play with. Two of the company’s renders show just how enormous the rocket really is, with a crew of four astronauts sitting in chairs by a bay of windows.

Starship measures almost 30 feet across, which means that crews will have an enormous amount of room to stretch out as they’re transported from the Orion

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