... (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...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...