Speaking to colleague Bob Zimmerman of Behind the Black, Lockheed, known for aircraft and other fine

engineering ideas, is building an inflatable module for space stations. We're looking at Commercial Space Station era in which people will

be going back and forth on the various spacecraft such as Dragon and staying for days or weeks in orbit. An inflatable

motto from Lockheed here Bob describes the details and it's a very positive

development. It's going to cost a lot of money. It's the next idea. Once it was Zeppelin's, then it was aircraft across America. Then was jet airplanes now it's going to be

inflatable space stations more of this later. Yes it is what Lockheed Martin is now

developing and testing is its own inflatable module designed to act as an

airlock for space stations and they're testing it you know they're doing pressure

tests and eventually they'll do the test the failure, pressure test the failure.

But what's interesting about this

is they're designing this as an airlock

for space stations that they can sell

for the many space stations being built.

And what's really interesting is that with the addition of locking into this

inflatable module design competition, there are now at least four companies,

building inflatable modules for sales space station

companies. So the aerospace is the most advanced. They're a partner in the

orbital reach station, but they've said that their life inflatable module will

be available to the cell to any other space station.

But there's a company in India and there's also another American company that's building these things to

to sell to any space station that wants that inflatable module.

So this is a new subcontract, the business, John,

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