NASA and Sierra Space blew up another space habitat in June, and everyone is smiling about it. That’s because the full-size inflatable structure in this Ultimate Burst Pressure test only failed ...

Experts are working on a unique experiment that will use an inflatable aeroshell/heat shield to protect a spacecraft when entering a planet's atmosphere or returning to Earth The Ultimate ...

A fully developed inflatable module would have included internal fixtures and equipment, but being a test article, the inside of BEAM was essentially just open space.

Witnessing an explosion involving a carefully constructed piece of space kit doesn’t look like a good thing, but engineers at Sierra Space was entirely happy to see its LIFE (Large Integrated ...

Hotel mogul Robert Bigelow wants to take his idea to build inflatable space habitats and run with it - apparently, all the way to Mars. On Thursday, the billionaire publicly unveiled Bigelow ...