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sofa king

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13. Yeah, but the view is unbeatable.
Sat Jun 2, 2012, 06:34 PM
Jun 2012

One company scheduled to launch with SpaceX is Bigelow Aerospace, which has resurrected the NASA Transhab concept (ahem, killed by the Republican-controlled 106th Congress in 2000).

The inflatable habitation concept is particularly resistant to micrometeoroid impacts and, if built as a double bladder with honeycombs, should be able to squish the majority of the water storage to the sun side to partially block solar radiation. There could be an additional "safe room" one could retreat to during storms.

If they pull that off, then you get more of an apartment rather than a camper. And, occasionally, one might have to conduct an EVA in the truly great outdoors... but I'd want to do that as little as possible.

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