American Space Agency signed an agreement with the SpaceX company performs flights vans Dragon capsule to the ISS. The contract amounts to $ 1.6 billion. SpaceX uses its own solid rocket boosters Falcon 9 Photo: PAP / EPA / SpaceX
The capsule built by Bigelow called Beam. When inflated, will have three to four and a half meters.
They’ll go to the astronauts from the station and will fit special sensors, because you have to check the strength of the resistance to cosmic radiation.
engineers want to in the future such inflatable capsule served to astronauts during long missions, including during the flight to Mars.
– these modules are the future, because we flew in distant places of the planet. This is the next logical step – explains Kirk Shireman NASA.
The capsule Beam will be tested at the station for two years.
Bigelow Aerospace has experience in developing inflatable space. He performs them since 1999. In 2006 and 2007 the company presented the prototypes that were checked in the space (Genesis 1 and Genesis 2). Currently, the company is also working on a module that is used to create a room of 330 m3 of space.
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