Recently, a prototype inflatable space station module built by Sierra Space exploded violently on a test stand at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. Under normal circumstances ...

Inflatable architecture is considered the next big thing in space habitation. The rationale is that the expandable material can be readily stowed inside the spaceship, securely packed to take up ...

Sierra Space tested an inflatable habitat prototype fitted with a metallic window sub-structure. "The LIFE habitat will house ...

Robert T. Bigelow has developed the inflatable Bigelow Expanded Activity Module, an aluminum habitation, to test in space. Pictured is a one-third scale model. Late this year or early next ...

Experts are working on a unique experiment that will use an inflatable aeroshell/heat shield ... Inside the Epic Artemis Moon Missions (02:21) The Space Launch System is the Most Powerful Rocket ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The International Space Station just got a new addition — a module that can be expanded and give astronauts more room to live and conduct experiments. If it ...

Credit: Spaceo TAMPA, Fla. — A group of European companies has secured government funds to test an inflatable drag sail in space by 2028, designed to swiftly deorbit its host satellite after ...

Hotel mogul Robert Bigelow wants to take his idea to build inflatable space habitats and run with it - apparently, all the way to Mars. On Thursday, the billionaire publicly unveiled Bigelow ...