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...
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...
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...
January 2016
Shifting Space Perspectives: Artistic Research as Connective Research Area
... living autonomously in the hab for two weeks, as they would in a nominal short mission space scenario. SHEE is thus the first European space habitat simulator, and the first to be deployable through six petals. It is transportable by land, sea and...
July 2019
Developing life support systems for human exploration missions beyond Earth
... developed. NASA has started conducting a series of ground tests inside five uniquely designed, full-size, deep space habitat prototypes. The mockups, constructed by five US companies, offer different perspectives on how astronauts will live and work...
