NASA Successfully Deploys Bigelow Expandable Activity Module

                On 28 May 2016, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Bigelow Aerospace successfully deployed the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) on the International Space Station. It is the first experimental inflatable room attached to the space station.

Highlights:

•          It is an expandable habitat technology demonstration for the International Space Station.
•          Expandable habitats greatly decrease the amount of transport volume for future space missions.
•          These expendables are light-weight and require minimal payload volume on a rocket, but expand after being deployed in space to potentially provide a comfortable area for astronauts to live and work.
•          They also provide a varying degree of protection from solar ad cosmic radiation, space debris, atomic oxygen, ultraviolet radiation and other elements of the space environment.