As this View 'Hotel Room' for Space Travel

MASSAPEDIA NEWS - SpaceX Dragon cargo aircraft from successfully put the supply needs of astronauts and the brand-new module will be 'hotel room' space to the International Space Station (International Space Station / ISS) on Sunday (10/4).

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The module named Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) is believed as something potentially as 'hotel room' human crew in space tourism program or a scientific cruise mission to the planet Mars. After arriving in space, then what will be done by the astronauts who inhabit the ISS to the BEAM?

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As has been reported previously, BEAM indeed be pinned to the ISS to undergo the testing process.

Known addresses in Dragon cargo plane, BEAM is still in a state of collapse. Citing NBC News, BEAM will be pinned to the ISS on Saturday (16/4) but will not inflated until the end of May.

Then after BEAM has been inflated, NASA will remain closed the hatch to see if this module can work well in space.

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Interior size to be used BEAM in the ISS is 330 cubic meters.

BEAM is also open for the crew of astronauts who are inhabiting the ISS, but its capacity is limited to a maximum of six people. Later, the astronauts were allowed to enter several times to gather scientific data and test the sensors.

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The plan, BEAM will continue to be pinned on the ISS for two years.

Technologies such habitat is expected to be applied for the NASA Mars missions around the next two decades.

While companies that develop BEAM, Bigelow Aerospace, want this module can be used commercially within the next four years.

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BEAM design that weighs 1,360 kilograms is claimed to be basically able to reduce the effects of space radiation because it is not made of metal.

BEAM development cost US $ 17.8 million  and claimed to be the most pocket-friendly modules to be embedded in the ISS.

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If the mission is successful, BEAM will be the first step for the application of space habitats orbiting the Earth, and enables scientists and tourists visit it and call it a "space hotel".