LITTLETON, CO. – The common saying that “space is hard” may need redefinition, given the increasing use of softgoods to fashion inflatable structures from airlocks to habitats for future lunar and ...

Boom! The inflatable test unit burst at a pressure of 224 psi—14.7 times NASA’s required factor of safety. Credit: Lockheed Martin The race to the Moon is on, and Lockheed Martin is confident that its ...

The few space stations humanity deployed into Earth orbit over the past few decades have all been made from the ground up as full-scale structures. That means their elements have been transported in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The grey side of a metal test stand curves upward like a stunted elbow from the bottom right. Its the profile of what's left of ...

Sierra Space, a leading, pureplay commercial space company building the first end-to-end business and technology platform in space, announced today that the company’s LIFE™ habitat (Large Integrated ...