In the Space Shuttle cargo bay during the last mission, three carefully folded flexible rods where inflated with pressurized nitrogen gas, heated and then cooled until then hardened into a firm ...

Robert T. Bigelow has developed the inflatable Bigelow Expanded Activity Module, an aluminum habitation, to test in space. Pictured is a one-third scale model. Late this year or early next, NASA will ...

Unlike many other early space station concepts, this design actually made it out of the concept phase and into production, though no models were ever flown. This particular station was 30-feet and ...

When you’re millions of miles from Earth, things need to work—the first time. So rather than rely on failure-prone mechanical systems, these space instruments utilize miniature atmospheres for their ...