"The International Space Station gained a brand new room on Saturday (April 16), but it will be another month before it grows large enough for the astronauts to enter.
A first-of-its-type inflatable structure, the BEAM — or Bigelow Expandable Activity Module — built by Bigelow Aerospace, was attached to the rear-facing port of the space station's Tranquility node. It is the first new addition to the orbiting outpost in five years."
Bigelow already has proven their HAB Technology with Genesis I and Genesis II, and they have several other projects they have proposed and built but not launched. Hopefully with the BEAM NASA will get over their distaste of Inflatable HAB's, and start trying to use them in orbit and My biggest hope on the Moon and on Mars.
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Showing posts with label TransHab. Show all posts
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
The International Space Station is getting a new room
"LAS VEGAS (AP) — NASA is partnering with a commercial space company in a bid to replace the cumbersome "metal cans" that now serve as astronauts' homes in space with inflatable bounce-house-like habitats that can be deployed on the cheap."
I'm glad that Bigelow Aerospace is being allowed to show just what their systems can do. Their Genesis I and Genesis II modules are still orbiting the earth and can be tracked along with the ISS at the following link.
Our Planet Earth from Space
Bigelow is still working on their BA330 Module which is much larger than their two previous modules, and the TransHab systems are getting proven in space. And hopefully in the coming years space tourism at an reasonably affordable price will be the jump start necessary to increase our use of space and the second step of our possibly colonizing other planets.
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