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Sierra Space tested an inflatable habitat prototype fitted with a metallic window sub-structure.

Credit: Sierra Space
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00:00What is an ultimate burst pressure? It's what the team loves to do. We take that subscale.
00:05We maximum pressurize it and we make it explode, destroy it. All of this testing, all of
00:10this development, what we might deem bringing it to failure is actually bringing it to success.
00:15We're failing to succeed.
00:20We're failing to succeed.
00:25We're failing to succeed.
00:30The whole idea of this plate is...
00:35to create a rigid point and a soft structure that can be used.
00:40To mount anything to like a window or an airlock.
00:44What better...
00:45in this entire world than if you're up in space and you look down at earth.
00:49This will be the...
00:50first time that there's a soft goods inflatable habitat in space with a window.
00:55Because we want to make sure our product lines are robust and they're safe.
00:59How do we...
01:00How do we make them safe in space?
01:01We fail them on earth.
01:02And then in space, they don't fail.
01:05They don't fail them on earth.
01:06They don't fail them on earth.
01:07And then we'll deal with them.
01:08They don't fail them on earth.
01:09They don't fail them on earth.
01:10Woo!
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