{"id":185511,"date":"2024-03-20T04:22:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T09:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/full-scale-prototype-space-habitat-explodes-under-pressure"},"modified":"2024-03-20T04:22:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T09:22:49","slug":"full-scale-prototype-space-habitat-explodes-under-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/full-scale-prototype-space-habitat-explodes-under-pressure","title":{"rendered":"Full-Scale Prototype Space Habitat Explodes Under Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_7NiBD3KqkQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Private space company Sierra Space has <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/space-startup-blows-up-another-giant-inflatable-space-station-module\" class=\"\">blown up<\/a> its first full-scale inflatable space habitat, dubbed the Large Integrated Flexible Environment (LIFE) \u2014 and it was all part of the plan.<\/p>\n<p>The balloon-like contraption, which measured just over 20 feet tall, held a third of the volume of the International Space Station once fully inflated. During a recent test, engineers at the Colorado-based company kept pumping it with air, reaching a whopping 77 psi \u2014 well above NASA\u2019s recommended level of 60.8 psi \u2014 before it exploded in spectacular fashion.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_7NiBD3KqkQ\" class=\"\">video<\/a> of the test shows the habitat quite literally bursting at its seams in a fraction of a second, successfully concluding the company\u2019s \u201cfirst stress test of a full-size, inflatable space station structure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private space company Sierra Space has blown up its first full-scale inflatable space habitat, dubbed the Large Integrated Flexible Environment (LIFE) \u2014 and it was all part of the plan. The balloon-like contraption, which measured just over 20 feet tall, held a third of the volume of the International Space Station once fully inflated. During [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}