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New Commercial Airlock For ISS

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
February 6, 2017
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New Commercial Airlock For ISS

NanoRacks and Boeing Building First Commercial Airlock on ISS, NanoRacks
“NanoRacks, LLC will partner with Boeing on the building and installation of the first commercial airlock module, which will attach to the U.S. segment on the International Space Station (ISS). In May 2016, NanoRacks and NASA signed a Space Act Agreement in order to install a private airlock module onboard the International Space Station – the first in station history. The NanoRacks Airlock Module will be both a permanent commercial uncrewed module onboard International Space Station, and also a module capable of being removed from the space station and used on a future commercial platform.”

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2 responses to “New Commercial Airlock For ISS”

  1. Daniel Woodard says:
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    Is there a diagram showing how it actually functions?

  2. Bendeguz79 says:
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    Climate change. Is there any reason to believe that Earth’s climate has not been changing since day #1 ? OR is there any reason to assume it will not change in the future also? Or at least while the Earth has an atmosfere?
    By just why is it ignored that the greatest harm caused to Earth’s climate, atmosfere, ecology and in general to balance of nature is cause mostly by our shear and growing number of humans. Actually by the very human population explosion?
    Simply put it, when I was a young fellow, the Earth human population was at the brink of two billion. Here we are today at the mark of seven and half billion, and will double in the next 40 years. And just what will it be by 2100? 20, 25 or even 30 billion ? While the experts believe that 10 billion is the ultimate number of humans this Earth can support. So what shall we do than ? It’s not that far away, yet no one considers that situation, or at least to think of it.
    It is us humans alone, that exploit, abuse and destroy everything on Earth, including our very own fellow human beings. The saddest part is, that while the predetory animals do it for their survival only, we humans do it for pleasure and profit , that is totally unforgivable.
    While so many complain of “climate change’ yet totally ignore a much greater and more eminent harm we ourselfs do to mother Earth.
    Without pouting an end to harm the balance of nature, we have no chance of survival. Without stopping and reverseing human population explosion and destruction of nature we are lost.