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Credit: BEAM: Bigelow Aerospace
HOUSTON — After a long wait, astronauts are prepared to share real estate aboard the International Space Station with a rugged fabric habitation module, a commercial prototype for the kind of enclosure that can be greatly compressed to a low launch volume. Once in space, the structure is designed to...
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