NASA astronauts could stay inside a three-storey “inflatable” space home during trips to the Moon.
Space heroes travelling to the lunar surface as part of Nasa’s Artemis missions could be sleeping inside the giant pod as soon as the 2030s.
Nasa hasn’t confirmed an exact final design for the so-called Lunar Surface Habitat.
But the space agency has released early concepts and schematics for what it might look like.
The idea is that eventually, astronauts will dock at an orbiting space station called the Lunar Gateway – and then descend to the Moon for missions.
“Nasa is currently developing concepts for sustained crewed missions to the lunar surface,” said Nasa’s Paul Kesseler in 2022.
“Sustained missions will occur on …