You might be hearing about future plans to colonize Mars or establish a base on the moon, but these ideas are older than humankind's first forays out of the atmosphere. In fact there have been several ...

Copenhagen design studio SAGA Space Architects has used a shipping container to create a tiny shelter with an ...

FLEXHab is a compact, Moon-themed habitat built from a 40-ft shipping container to simulate space missions on Earth.

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In the design, the team has to consider issues related to both safety and volume because the usable living space on a deep space habitat like the ISS is small, and every square inch of space is vital ...

After choosing the final design, they did 19 more tests to double-check that the shield would work as planned. These tests helped Sierra Space engineers confirm that the LIFE habitat’s shield ...

(Photo: Sierra Space) High-Speed Ballistic Tests Replicated Micrometeoroid and Orbital Debris Impacts to Help Refine the Shielding of the Company’s Expandable LIFE ® Habitat "Our innovative ...

As part of the space agency's $2.5 million Centennial Challenge, teams of designers, engineers, and architects from across the US submitted designs for an astronaut habitat that could be 3D ...