When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. BEAM, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, is an inflatable space room prototype built by ...

When the SpaceX CRS-8 mission heads for the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, it will be carrying a first in manned spaceflight – the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM). The 1,400-kg ...

Flight controllers remotely operating the International Space Station's robot arm pulled an experimental expandable crew compartment out of the trunk of a SpaceX Dragon supply ship early Saturday and ...

NASA and Bigelow Aerospace will make a second attempt at 9 a.m. EDT Saturday, May 28, to expand the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), currently attached to the International Space Station.

SYDNEY — NASA plans to keep an experimental expandable module attached to the International Space Station beyond its original two-year lifetime, the agency announced Oct. 2. In a procurement filing, ...

This animated image shows four ways BEAM may expand in orbit once it has been attached to the International Space Station. This infographic gives facts about the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, ...