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>>14854635
https://www.omnicalculator.com/math/cylinder-volume

1. 8 decks at 3m height per deck = 24m height
2. 4.5 meter radius = 9 meter diameter
3. Total usable cubic volume as a result of the calculation is pic related: 53,918.93 cubic ft.

Now, we're going to subtract 1/2 a meter from the height of each deck and 1/2 of a meter from the radius for all the space that will be lost for walls, supporting hardware, and storage. Which means our new variables are:
1. 8 decks at 2.5m height = 20m usable height
2. 4m radius = 8m usable diameter
3. Total usable cubic volume as a result of the calculation then is: 35,502.18 cubic feet.

According to this site: https://www.atobmoving.com/movesize.html, a 5 bedroom house is approximately 1300 cubic feet. That means, each Starship has a total usable volume (this time including the dual redundant airlocks AND unpressurized cargo area) of 27 5 bedroom houses. Let's assume that this math is too generous and drop that by 50%. That still means that the Moonship will have the equivalent space of 13.5 x 5 bedrooms worth of volume. That's absolutely nuts. Starship is such a game changer, it makes every other lander ever built and arguably to be built in the next 20 years by anyone else, a complete nonstarter. You have more usable space in a single Moonship than all of apollo capsules, lunar landers combined and maybe even all space shuttle launches with their crew sections added in.