Illustration of a reusable space tourism cruise shuttle approaching a manned habitat 400 kilometres above the Earth. The habitat is composed of two modules connected in the middle by docking ports. At left is a hard-walled habitat similar to the modules that make up the pressurized environments of the International Space Station, while at right is soft-walled inflatable habitat that is collapsed and folded during launch. Once in orbit it is inflated like a balloon and has a pressurized and breathable atmosphere. Both modules provide a comfortable shirt-sleeve, albeit weightless, environment for several astronauts. Such a configuration could one day be amenable to space tourism. Earth image courtesy of the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center. | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Myers, Walter |
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