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Spaceships are limited in crew because of weight and consumables (mainly oxygen). But more people can travel in them as their design and technology improves.

- The earliest manned missions carried only one, and later two, and three for the Apollo missions to the Moon.

- The first Soviet space station, Mir, could hold about 7 or 8 for a short period, but normally 3 or 4 at most.

- The Space Shuttle carried from 3 to 7 crew members, and could transport as many as 10 without modification.

- The International Space Station has an upper capacity of 14 astronauts for a day or so, with the standard resident crew being 6 (since 2009).

- Some of the planned manned missions to Mars could carry a crew of 3 to 5.

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