Space Inflator: Images
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The kitchen area on the first level, doubles as a meeting space, and the exercise areas, with a treadmill and rowing machine, are located on the third level. |
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TransHab
Before Adams started work on the TransHab, designers had settled on a scheme in which the floors would be like the spokes of a wheel, radiating out from a central core, above. After evaluating this layout for efficiency and the comfort of the crew, she came up with a more familiar plan that stacks floors vertically. An early sketch for the first level shows the kitchen and meeting space. |
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The shelving system is made up of interlocking graphite-epoxy composite panels, which line TransHab's central core. |
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The shelving system can be repositioned or even used as walls if crew members want more privacy. |
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When the module is packed up for transport, it is only one-third of its eventual size. During a test at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, the shell was inflated, and outfitted with its MODD, or micrometeoroid orbital debris layer, which will keep it from getting punctured by any errant meteoroid particles. |
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