May 2020
Mixed reality in the design of space habitats
... (MR) systems are likely to play a significant role in maintaining the psychological comfort of residents in long-duration space habitats Today, a variety of technologies, ranging from portable devices to room-based systems, and from projection-based...
May 2019
Cold comfort for astronauts
... everyday life a pillow represents one of the simplest examples for personal comfort. We can use this as a notional space habitat object for discussion. At first glance the utility of a pillow in zero gravity might not be obvious. But, as we explore...
02 October 2021
Space Habitats and Habitability
... this academic but readable volume is a guide to the concepts of habitability and human factors in relation to space habitats. In seven information-packed chapters, it surveys a number of terrestrial ‘analogue’ studies, missions and facilities along...
18 March 2019
A habitat prototype for NASA’s Moon-orbiting Gateway
... Valania of Sierra Nevada Corp., who answered questions March 14 on Twitter about the company’s prototype of an inflatable deep-space habitat. NASA awarded six companies contracts worth a total of $65 million in 2016 to develop...
July 2021
Commercial space stations - fulfilling the dream
...-support products for water processing and environmental management. And beyond that, Sierra Space plans clusters of interconnected space habitats where private space travellers arrive and depart on a fleet of privately-owned spaceplanes for science...
February 2016
A Self-Deployable Habitat for Extreme Environments (SHEE)
... of a standard Euro shipping container - and its capacity to automatically deploy, increasing the size of the habitat and usable space to accommodate a two person-crew. The overall inhabitable volume of approximately 50m? was based on current NASA...
