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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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Forget blow-up air mattresses. Space-station astronauts are getting their first inflatable room. It's a technology demonstration meant to pave the way for moon bases and Mars ...

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 ...

Forget blowup air mattresses. Space station astronauts are getting their first inflatable room. It's a technology demo meant to pave the way for moon bases and Mars expeditions, as well as orbiting ...