Within the last year, NASA has begun planning for a much smaller astronaut outpost, a new destination dubbed the Gateway. The idea is for this space station to serve as a place for astronauts to live and train for excursions to and from the lunar surface. In this episode of Space Craft, Loren Grush heads to Lockheed Martin to visit a mockup of one of these space habitats and see what living in it might actually feel like.
Designing a Tiny Home to Orbit the Moon
NASA wants to build another space station — except this one won’t live in a close orbit around Earth.
Sep 13, 2018
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