It’s a blow up spaceship!
It is well into the development of 25% and 45% scale inflatable flight test modules for a series of four privately funded unmanned orbital test flights during 2005-07. It has already developed substantial full- and reduced-scale inflatable ground test hardware.
THE ORBITAL demonstrations and ground test hardware are aimed toward the launch of a man-tended commercial “Nautilus” module between 2008 and 2010. The watermelon-shaped Nautilus would weigh 20-25 tons and, once inflated in orbit, measure 45 X 22 ft. with 330 cu. meters of volume. This is larger than the 25 X 27-ft. tractor-tire shaped TransHab and substantially bigger than any individual ISS module.
Certainly looks promising.
Oooh! And here’s another one!
It wasn’t the end of JP Aerospace. But it was the beginning of Powell’s belief that if he were ever going to reach space, he would have to do it without the help of NASA. He’d need cheaper, more innovative solutions. He’d need balloons.
And I thought this thread would be about Real Dolls.
Don’t let **Scylla ** see this!
Real Doll? That’s so passé. Check out Superbabe !
Wow.
That’s it. I’m going back to work on the many hare-brained projects people with things like ‘actual skill’ and ‘knowledge’ and ‘experience’ say will kill me.
