Tag: habitat

03 SEP

Chattanooga startup’s 3D-printed space habitat wins NASA competition

Chattanooga-based Branch Technology joined with an architectural firm to win first place in a phase of a NASA competition to build a 3D-printed habitat for deep space exploration. The 3D printing company, based in Chattanooga’s small business incubator GigTank, built a number of structural components which could be part of habitats, said Melody Rees, a […]

24 JUL

NASA backs deep space habitat made with old ISS cargo module

NASA has given Lockheed Martin the go-ahead to build a full-scale prototype of the deep space habitat it proposed for the NextSTEP program. That means in around 18 months’ time, it might start testing new space travel technologies for the agency. No, not in orbit, but right inside a facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. […]

28 MAY

Inflatable space habitat passes first hurdle, now onto radiation testing

NASA It has now been a year since NASA successfully expanded a habitat attached to the International Space Station, the experimental Bigelow Expandable Activity Module. Initial tests on the module suggest that expandable habitats may play an important role as NASA considers how best to expand human activity into deep space. During the first year, […]