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Details On Inflatable Space Modules

Posted by Hemos on from the jetson-world dept.

Decibel writes "Although it's been mentioned on Slashdot twice now, this article contains more details about Robert T. Bigelow's plan to orbit massive inflatable space habitats, with the first test modules to be launched next year. It also details the $50 million "America's Space Prize", with the objective to "spur development of a low-cost commercial manned orbital vehicle capable of launching 5-7 astronauts at a time to Bigelow inflatable modules by the end of the decade.""

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  1. orpo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    # glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
    # POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
    # (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
    # use almost no memory if not populated with files)
    # Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this:

  2. Goatse bless america by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    teh only thing you have ta ph34r is teh ph34r itself.

  3. Groan... by Zilfondel2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What's in a name?