01. How big is a spaceship? (A K2S Question)

From The Space Library

A spaceship can be almost any size. Some satellites with cameras or other sensors are as small as a piece of notebook paper and several inches thick. Spaceships that carry humans must be large enough to have all the systems that support life (air, water, food, waste disposal, couches, exercise machines, and so forth). But remember that the spaceship (or its pieces, if it is to be assembled in space) must be launched from Earth, so usually "smaller is better."

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Answer provided by Jon H. Brown

Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

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