Habitation modules

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ISS Habitation Module ( NASA )
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The American Habitation Module was intended to serve as the home and abode of the astronauts on board the International Space Station . With the size of a bus (8.8 × 4.8 m), it would have offered four bedrooms, a shower, a kitchen niche and relaxation options. During the design phase, the inflatable Transhab module, which was many times the size of the final design, was also considered, but discarded because of its high cost.

The production of the final Habitation Module began, but was discontinued before completion. This was justified with the fact that in order to offer space for more than three people, the ISS must have a correspondingly larger rescue shuttle, but after the cost-related suspension of the CRV project, one would no longer be available. Nevertheless, up to six people were later accommodated permanently on the ISS. For this purpose, two three-seater Soyuz spaceships were always docked as escape pods on the ISS. Therefore, the Habitation Module would still have been very useful, but the decisive factors for the discontinuation were also cost reasons and a lack of transport capacities from the discontinuation of the shuttle program in 2011. The finished shell of the module was moved to the Marshall Space Flight Center in February 2006 Huntsville, Alabama, to test new developments in air and water treatment systems.

The crew of the ISS was accommodated in other modules (e.g. as of April 2011) in the Russian Zvezda module (two cabins) and in the Harmony module (four cabins). In the past there was a temporary accommodation in the American space laboratory Destiny , as well as a crew cabin in the Japanese Kibo laboratory.

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Commons : Habitation Module  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Tariq Malik: NASA Recycles Former ISS Module for Life Support Research. Space.com, February 14, 2006, accessed January 31, 2019 .