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.
Vacuum Deployment Test of a Large Expandable Aerospace Shelter
1966
32 pages
Report
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English
Manned Spacecraft , Expandable structures , Deployment , Manned spacecraft , Shelters , Cylindrical bodies , Vacuum , Space environments , Test equipment , Damage , Assembly , Impregnation , Glass textiles , Sandwich construction , Isocyanate plastics , Plastic coatings , Nylon , Hemispherical shells , Epoxy resins , Gemini