NASA to inflate habitat at space station

The space station crew will enter the module many times a day to make observations.

NASA however, have denied that the speck of light is anything extra-terrestrial.

NASA astronaut Jeff Williams performed leak checks and installed hardware to monitor and support BEAM expansion set to begin Thursday at 6:10 a.m. EDT (10:10 a.m. UTC). They were then packaged up with identical seeds that had stayed on Earth, and packets of each were distributed to selected United Kingdom schools and groups for experiment. I guess when your head’s in the clouds, the public’s opinion means nothing to you anymore. For now the BEAM is only being tested to see how the technology holds up in space.

Russian Federation will not conduct any more space launches to send USA astronauts to the International Space Stanton after 2018, according to a release issued by the country’s TASS news agency.

The deployment of BEAM has been highly anticipated by NASA scientists and the engineers at Bigelow Aerospace, the company which built the prototype. The module was designed by Bigelow Aerospace, which has been working on the technology since 2000.

According to Nasa, expandable habitats require “less payload volume on a rocket than traditional rigid structures”, and also provide a “varying degree of protection from solar and cosmic radiation, space debris, atomic oxygen, ultraviolet radiation and other elements in space”. Does it protect against radiation? Though, we will not be able to gather any data until the mandatory testing of BEAM’s two-year period is over. The team disclosed that the walls of the beam don’t inflate like what a balloon does. It will be trapped if a micrometeoroid hits it. However, it will not penetrate the structure all the way through.

Astronauts are preparing to deploy the much anticipated Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) on Thursday, which will kick off a two-year mission in orbit.