Deep space engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Centre in Texas are putting together a prototype of a deep space station from scrap parts of the ISS.
The Deep Space Habitat project is an attempt to work out optimum size of capsule, equipment and resources to send outside of the Earth-Moon system and into deep space. That could be to Mars, to an asteroid, or even to one of the solar system's many Lagrangian points.
By: Duncan Geere,
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/27/deep-space-habitat
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