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Inflatable Lunar Shelter Design
gndonald
post Mar 27 2007, 03:23 AM
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I have a 1979 coffee-table book called "The Space Travellers Handbook", inside are several pictures of an inflatable lunar shelter being tested.

Yesterday I finally found out what it was. It turned out to be a Goodyear Design called STEM (Warning 143MB file), and was designed to fit on panniers around the LM descent stage and would allow two men to stay on the moon for 8 days.

Hopefully NASA will consider looking back through its old plans and dust this one-off, as I (as an amateur) can see nothing wrong with the concept (at least at this point.)
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- gndonald   Inflatable Lunar Shelter Design   Mar 27 2007, 03:23 AM
- - lyford   Um -warning- that links to a 143 MB PDF file! ...   Mar 27 2007, 06:49 AM
|- - gndonald   QUOTE (lyford @ Mar 27 2007, 02:49 PM) Um...   Mar 27 2007, 03:30 PM
- - lyford   No worries - good thing I was on hold with tech su...   Mar 27 2007, 06:36 PM
|- - ustrax   This might be of interest...   Mar 29 2007, 09:36 AM
- - Zvezdichko   Inflatable lunar shelter is OK, but what about the...   Mar 31 2007, 02:42 PM
- - nprev   Mmm...yes, very good point, Z. Seems like thermal ...   Mar 31 2007, 11:17 PM
- - dvandorn   The early plans for manned lunar habitats (places ...   Apr 1 2007, 02:32 AM
- - nprev   I don't think there's any choice but to fl...   Apr 1 2007, 07:17 AM
- - dvandorn   What I'd *really* like to do, in re lunar habi...   Apr 2 2007, 12:00 AM
- - edstrick   No lavatube segment will be even remotely airtight...   Apr 2 2007, 08:35 AM

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