NASA was so concerned that vibrations reverberating from deployment of Bigelow Aerospace’s Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) could damage the International Space Station (ISS) that the agency initially pursued a manual pressurization technique of “five seconds on, 15 minutes off,” company founder Bob Bigelow told Defense Daily Friday.Bigelow said Thursday’s first, but failed, attempt to properly pressurize BEAM had nothing to do with the spacecraft. Instead, he said it stemmed from a NASA computerized modeling effort that did not match how…
