A 10-ft-diam by 25-ft-long, expandable, self-rigidizing, cylindrical aerospace shelter was impregnated with a water setting resin and packaged for deployment in a vacuum of .0001 torr in the Mark 1 Aerospace Environmental Chamber. The deployment rate of the structure was observed. The Mark 1 chamber was returned to atmospheric conditions, and the structure was rigidized.


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    Title :

    Vacuum Deployment Test of a Large Expandable Aerospace Shelter


    Contributors:
    F. W. Nelms (author)

    Publication date :

    1966


    Size :

    32 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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