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Just Add Gas
The image shows folded, inflatable tubes. The tubes were recently tested in space by an Endeavour shuttle crew. They inflated the tubes housed inside a chamber in the shuttle cargo bay with pressurized nitrogen gas, then heated them. The tubes then cooled, forming rigid structures. |
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