Two years after the platform was launched, Vermeulen started a doctoral research in Space habitat design and participatory systems engineering at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
Space habitat, a space station intended to provide a permanent home for a large population
:* Space habitat, a free-floating extraterrestrial colony specifically
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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).