NASA Funds Trials Of Inflatable Habitat

Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
NASA will pay Bigelow Aerospace $17.8 million to test this subscale inflatable habitat module at the International Space Station, using instruments and station crewmembers to study whether the technology will allow the housing of astronauts and their gear on their way to Mars. Under the two-year...

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