NASA successfully tested an inflatable heat shield prototype Monday (July 23), a technology that could one day be used for future space exploration missions, including landing humans on Mars, its ...

A 1/3 scale prototype of Sierra Space's LIFE inflatable habitat was run through an Accelerated Systematic Creep Test within a ...

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A large inflatable heat shield developed by NASA’s Space Technology Program has successfully survived a trip through Earth’s atmosphere while travelling at hypersonic speeds up to 7,600 mph. The ...

HOT AIR: This weekend NASA will test a large, inflatable heat shield aboard a suborbital rocket launched from the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Inflatable Reentry Vehicle ...

American space agency NASA doesn't officially call it so, but in a larger sense the community of astronauts that will soon live and work on the Moon could easily be called a colony. That's because ...