TransHab
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TransHab was a program pursued by NASA in the late 1990s to develop the technology for expandable habitats inflated by air in space. TransHab was intended as a replacement for the existing rigid International Space Station crew Habitation Module. When deflated, inflatable modules provide an 'easier to launch' compact form. When fully inflated, TransHab would expand to in diameter (compare to the diameter of the Columbus ISS Module).
Key facts
- Space station module.module
- TransHab
- Space station module.module_image
- Transhab-cutaway.jpg
- Space station module.module_image_size
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- Space station module.module_image_caption
- A cutaway view of a TransHab concept
- Space station module.diameter
- Packed: Expanded:
- Space station module.volume
- Expanded:
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- History
- Technology
- Multi-Layer Inflatable Shell
- TransHab layout
- See also
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TransHab was a program pursued by NASA in the late 1990s to develop the technology for expandable habitats inflated by air in space. TransHab was intended as a replacement for the existing rigid International Space Station crew Habitation Module. When deflated, inflatable modules provide an 'easier to launch' compact form. When fully inflated, TransHab would expand to in diameter (compare to the diameter of the Columbus ISS Module).
==History== The name of the project is a contraction of Transit Habitat reflecting the original intention to design an interplanetary vehicle to transfer humans to Mars.