Timelapse of BEAM Inflatable Module Installation

  • 8 years ago
A timelapse of the installation of the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) which occurred today, April 16th 2016. BEAM was successfully launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and carried in the Dragon trunk on April 8th.

BEAM is an experimental expandable space station module being developed by Bigelow Aerospace, under contract to NASA, for testing as a temporary module on the International Space Station (ISS) from 2016 to 2018