When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. BEAM, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, is an inflatable space room prototype built by ...

When the SpaceX CRS-8 mission heads for the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, it will be carrying a first in manned spaceflight – the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM). The 1,400-kg ...

NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver announced Wednesday a newly planned addition to the International Space Station that will use the orbiting laboratory to test expandable space habitat technology.

SYDNEY — NASA plans to keep an experimental expandable module attached to the International Space Station beyond its original two-year lifetime, the agency announced Oct. 2. In a procurement filing, ...

Flight controllers remotely operating the International Space Station's robot arm pulled an experimental expandable crew compartment out of the trunk of a SpaceX Dragon supply ship early Saturday and ...

A camera on the International Space Station shows the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM, after inflation. (Credit: NASA TV) It took almost eight hours, but NASA accomplished the first ...

NASA slowly inflating new room at space station on 2nd try NASA slowly inflated a new experimental room at the International Space Station on Saturday, with better luck than the first try two days ...

On Thursday, NASA's first attempt to inflate the International Space Station's first expandable module, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), was a failure. Two days later, on Saturday May 28 ...

NASA's attempt to expand a new, expandable module to the International Space Station was terminated this morning when the module failed to inflate. Update 5/28/2016: On Saturday, May 28, the module ...

This animated image shows four ways BEAM may expand in orbit once it has been attached to the International Space Station. This infographic gives facts about the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, ...