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Real World: Lunar Habitats

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Learn how inflatable structures may be used as mobile living quarters for astronauts when NASA returns to the moon and then travels to Mars. Explore one inflatable model made of Kevlar.

Published on: June 22, 2009

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moon, lunar habitat, inflatable outpost, space, Kevlar