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occurred Dec 8, 2014 at 17:40

The shape is called a frustum and not a cone, tho I guess a "cut cone" could do too. Inlined the linked to image while at it (it's copyright SpaceX but is from their fair use promo materials, so I figure the link to its page I added should do it as far as attribution is concerned)

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edited Dec 8, 2014 at 16:35

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Why spaceships have cone shapeare spaceship capsules frustum shaped?

I'm struggling with this question: whyWhy do spaceships have a cone shapefrustum (like thisportion of a cone) shape like e.g. the pressure capsule of the SpaceX Dragon on the image below?

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