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With successful airlock test, Lockheed Martin invests in inflatable space structures (spacenews.com)

submitted 2 months ago by llamacoffee to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Just think maybe one of the next space stations will be entirely inflatable and be like way larger than all of our current space stations.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Just make sure Boeing isn't in charge of building the seals.

[–] ThePyroPython 7 points 2 months ago

I wouldn't trust Boeing to properly apply a cycling puncture repair kit without getting the patch stuck to their head.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

“If it’s Boeing, I’m not going”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

ROFL, right

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Bad news: I think Boeing is still working on a module for the Orbital Reef space station.

[–] ThePyroPython 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Space bouncy castle?

I'd 100% go to orbit to spend 5 minutes ~~zero-g~~ micro-gravity bouncing from wall to wall and then the rest of the time wheezing in the corner.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, look up Max Space.

[–] Pissman2020 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Something something Seveneves

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Some of the new free flyer concepts are basically arklets. Vast, Gravitics, Starlab...