Despite how futuristic the idea of inflatable space stations may seem, NASA first started experimenting with the concept of expandable habitat modules back in the 1990s, and there were practical ...

Expandable habitat technology was created from the Transhab program with the purpose of taking humans to Mars. This is important. In deep space, expandable structures have the potential to provide ...

Today, several leading firms are pushing forward on expandable structures in space, such as the new startup Max Space, which is working on inflatable habitats for Earth orbit, the moon and Mars.

Inflatable architecture is considered the next big thing in space habitation. The rationale is that the expandable material can be readily stowed inside the spaceship, securely packed to take up ...

Instant space habitat. The hard part was the 15 years of re­search and development that Bigelow Aerospace in North Las Vegas needed to create the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM.

Hotel mogul Robert Bigelow wants to take his idea to build inflatable space habitats and run with it ... Bigelow Aerospace's latest model of an expandable space station prototype, called the ...