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4 unusual facts about Inflatable space habitat


Inflatable space habitat

Bigelow recently announced that it has agreements with six sovereign states to utilize on-orbit facilities of the commercial space station: United Kingdom, Netherlands, Australia, Singapore, Japan and Sweden.

Currently the only designs that have flown in space have been the Genesis I and Genesis II modules from Bigelow Aerospace.

The first serious 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).

Currently the main areas of research are being undertaken by Bigelow Aerospace and NASA.



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