NASA Planning Lunar-orbit Habitat Ground Tests in 2018

Credit: Mars Base Camp: Lockheed Martin
Human-exploration managers at NASA hope to begin ground-testing a prototype habitat in 2018 for eventual use by Orion-vehicle astronauts in orbit around the Moon, drawing on a new round in its “Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP)” space-commercialization effort. The...

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