The planned lunar Gateway space station will be just one-sixth the size of the ISS and feature an upsettingly tiny habitation module.
A view of the Moon wouldn’t be bad either, except I-Hab won’t be equipped with the same luxury. “We always get asked ‘where is the window?’,” Waclavicek said. “The moon is a thousand times farther away [than the ISS] and each window is a disturbance in the continuity of the structure. Also, glass is very heavy so a window is the first thing that gets canceled.”
The Gateway will have windows, although not in the living quarters. Instead, the refueling module ESPRIT will have small windows, according to Waclavicek., the astronauts will have a hard time relaxing during their downtime—serenaded by the robotic hum of onboard machinery. “Actually, you are living in a machine room,” Waclavicek said.
a tiny tube for the duration of their mission around the Moon. “[The I-Hab] really is just a cylinder with a hatch on each end and two hatches at the sides and a corridor going through the length axis,” he said. “Even if you want to pass one another, it’s already quite difficult, you have to interrupt whatever you are doing in the moment to let the other [person]
pass by you.” It will be a cramped environment, no doubt, but it’s important to remember that a capsule, namely NASA’s Orion spacecraftelbow room. Lunar landers, such as SpaceX’s upcoming Starship, will also dock to Gateway.
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