NASA’s Expandable Space Hab Looks Super Cool

NASA’s Expandable Space Hab Looks Super Cool

Image Cache: The ironic thing about living in space is that you spend all of your time crammed into a tiny tin can. So the brave men and women at the International Space Station are probably stoked about what’s headed their way next month: a spare room.

Browse through the cool photos, animations and diagrams in Gizmodo’s Image Cache here.

The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) is a 3.6m-long, expandable habitat that will remain tethered to the ISS for the next two years. SpaceX, which has the honour of flying BEAM into orbit in April, recently posted a badarse photo of the hab being lowered into a Dragon cargo capsule.

It doesn’t get much more futuristic than this marriage of commercial spaceflight and expandable space habitats. Come to think of it, I’m pretty sure that’s a plot point in Neal Stephenson’s latest science fiction novel.

Image: SpaceX


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