Inflatable space habitat | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-28

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00:00:53 1 Construction
00:01:29 2 Ongoing research
00:02:00 2.1 Bigelow Expandable Activity Module
00:02:27 2.2 Bigelow Commercial Space Station
00:03:34 2.3 NASA Multi-Mission Space Exploration Vehicle
00:04:43 3 Advantages
00:05:26 4 Flight experience
00:05:45 5 See also



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Inflatable habitats or expandable habitats are pressurized structures capable of supporting life in outer space whose internal volume increases after launch. They have frequently been proposed for use in space applications to provide a greater volume of living space for a given mass.
The first formal design and manufacture of an inflatable space habitat was in 1961 with a space station design produced by Goodyear (although this design was never flown). A proposal released in 1989 by Johnson Space Center's Man Systems Division outlined a 16 metres (52 ft) diameter spherical habitat lunar outpost which was partially buried in the lunar surface.
An inflatable module called TransHab (a portmanteau of Trans Habitation) was proposed for the International Space Station, and later the private company Bigelow Aerospace revived the design for use in a number of potential civil and commercial applications.