Very little space at the edge of space

Aside from the visual aspect of the laboratory, the lead designer also had to consider the scale and size of the capsule. “That was our main responsibility to start with,” Window said. “So we did all the layout drawings and actually worked out how big the diameter of the sphere would be, and everything else was from that point forward.” The team behind the design went through over a 100 different layouts to get to the final mockup.