The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) is an experimental expandable space station module developed by Bigelow Aerospace, under contract to NASA, for testing as a temporary module on the International Space Station (ISS) from 2016 to 2018. Bigelow plans to build a second BEAM module as an airlock for the Bigelow Commercial Space Station.
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