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NASA's first expandable habitat test fails
- imron 10y ago> After being packed away for an extended time, friction between fabrics increased pressure to unpredicted levels, endangering the habitat. Something pretty similar to this happened in The Martian: The layers of plastic, constantly bending, heated the resin from pure friction. The new, more yielding environment allowed the carbon fibers to separate. AL102 stretched. Not much. Only four millimeters. But the carbon fibers, usually 500 microns apart, now had a gap eight times that width in their midst.