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Astronauts Inflate Their First Expandable Habitat in Space

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The International Space Station is currently expanding its cushy new room, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM). It's the first expandable habitat of its kind and will act as a demonstration for potential inflatable space-environments of the future.

NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, who launched up to the ISS in March, is currently manning the BEAM control panel in orbit, and you can watch him go through the procedures to expand the module (and feel jealous that you're not able to work in zero gravity in your socks) over a NASA livestream.

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