That looked violent.
its third inflatable space station module at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, a violent event caught in an epic slow-motion video.
The goal was to stress test a new habitat design for the eventual — and entirely commercial —replacement of the International Space Station, theThe LIFE Habitat module underwent its third stress test to demonstrate that it can pass NASA's certification requirements and house human visitors for prolonged periods of time.put together by Sierra Space shows the structure slowly inflating before abruptly tearing itself into shreds.
The scaled-down model was able to withstand intense pressures for over 150 hours, which is well above NASA's prescribed target of 100 hours. "Based on data from this first subscale creep test, we well exceeded the on-orbit mission performance requirement of 60 years for inflatable structures within our current architecture," LIFE chief engineer Shawn Buckley said in a
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