Habitation Module

ISS Habitation module (NASA)

The Habitation Module for the International Space Station was intended to be the Station's main living quarters designed with galley, toilet, shower, sleep stations and medical facilities. About the size of a bus, the module was canceled after its pressurized hull was complete.

In order to accommodate more than three people on the ISS, a lifeboat craft other than a single Soyuz TMA would be needed and such a Crew Return Vehicle was not there at that time. Later in the project, budget constraints and delays to the space station due to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster caused it to be definitively cancelled. On 14 February 2006 it was decided to recycle the Habitation Module for ground-based Life Support Research for future missions.

At various points in the design of the International Space Station, an inflatable Transhab module with several times the space of the initial design was considered as an alternative to the Habitation module.

See also

• Habitation extension module - proposed ISS module

References

• Tariq Malik (14 February 2006). "NASA Recycles Former ISS Module for Life Support Research". Space. Retrieved 2009-04-05.

• "Space Station: The Station Components". Houston Public Television. 1999. Retrieved 2009-04-05.

External links

• International Space Station