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2016-04-11 Science & Technology
SpaceX delivers world's 1st inflatable room for astronauts
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Posted by Fred 2016-04-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 I thought it was cold in space. How you going to heat it?
Posted by texhooey 2016-04-11 05:48||   2016-04-11 05:48|| Front Page Top

#2 An orbital bounce house?
Wonder if anybody ran a risk analysis on environmental fatigue or debris impact.
Posted by Skidmark 2016-04-11 10:05||   2016-04-11 10:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Depends on which way you are facing, tex.

Exposed to the sun it gets very hot. In the shadow super cold. Satellites and manned craft have to keep rotating to provide a uniform heating and cooling to the craft so the radiator systems can keep up.

I would expect some sort of radiator system that hooks into the space station on the pod.
Posted by DarthVader 2016-04-11 10:52||   2016-04-11 10:52|| Front Page Top

#4 heat coat in foil. cold build it from insulated matereils. build in heat pipes to carry warm to cold. Probably already have that solved.
Posted by Shuper Turkeyneck8620 2016-04-11 12:52||   2016-04-11 12:52|| Front Page Top

#5 
Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2016-04-11 13:54||   2016-04-11 13:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Bigelow has or maybe still has 2 test units flying. There were webcams on them. Pretty boring ones. No idea if they are still working. July 12, 2006, and June 28, 2007, Bigelow launched the Genesis I and II modules.
Posted by 3dc 2016-04-11 13:56||   2016-04-11 13:56|| Front Page Top

#7 
Wikipedia on Genesis I

Mission status Retired, on orbit

Wikipedia on Genesis II

Mission status Retired, on orbit
Posted by 3dc 2016-04-11 13:59||   2016-04-11 13:59|| Front Page Top

#8 BUT, Is it a safe space?
Posted by newc 2016-04-11 17:19||   2016-04-11 17:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Space is not safe:
"One tiny crack in the hull and our blood boils in 13 seconds. A solar flare might crop up, cook us in our seats. And wait till you're sitting pretty with a case of Andorian shingles. See if you're still so relaxed when your eyeballs are bleeding. Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence." - Leonard McCoy
Posted by Chuck 2016-04-11 18:12||   2016-04-11 18:12|| Front Page Top

#10 On a more serious note, the inflatable rooms combined with the reusable launchers reduces the cost of building a space station. A good thing.

Now to figure out what to do with a space station, other than as a tourist trap. :-)
Posted by Chuck 2016-04-11 18:29||   2016-04-11 18:29|| Front Page Top

#11 So did the shuttle external fuel tanks, Chuck.
One time engineering in a throwaway society doesn't allow for reuse when you can get less, much later for more money.
Posted by Those Phaiter1709 2016-04-11 23:15||   2016-04-11 23:15|| Front Page Top

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