A space startup called Max Space is looking to launch expandable, “stadium-sized” habitats into the Earth’s orbit on board a SpaceX rocket by the end of the decade. In theory, the startup’s goal is ...

Working and even living in space has shifted from far-off fantasy to seemingly inevitable reality, but the question remains: What exactly will the next generation of space habitation look like? For ...

Sierra Space, a leading commercial space company at the forefront of creating and building the future of space transportation and infrastructure for low-Earth orbit (LEO) commercialization, announced ...

China, India and the U.S. have all achieved landing on the Moon in the 2020s. Once there, their eventual goal is to set up a base. But a successful base – along with the spacecraft that will carry ...

Private space company Sierra Space has blown up its first full-scale inflatable space habitat, dubbed the Large Integrated Flexible Environment (LIFE) — and it was all part of the plan. The ...

Discover the incredible engineering and visionary potential of Bernal Spheres, futuristic space habitats designed to sustain ...

Visitors to Seattle’s Museum of Flight will be able to step into a mock-up of what a futuristic space habitat could look like with the arrival later this month of TESSERAE, a life-size space station ...

With the aging International Space Station (ISS) facing a fiery end about seven years from now, attention has been turning to new designs to replace the orbital outpost. One such company exploring ...

The Lockheed Martin habitat inflation burst test was conducted on June 14, 2023, at the company's Waterton Canyon facility in Colorado at an old Titan rocket engine test stand. Credit: Lockheed Martin ...

Inflatable space habitats are a relatively new concept in space exploration. Although people started thinking about such things ever since the 1960s, when the original space race was at its peak, it ...

Constance Adams, an architect who gave up designing skyscrapers to develop structures that would help travelers live with reasonable comfort on the International Space Station, Mars or the moon, died ...