First commercial airlock heads to the International Space Station later this year – haveeruonline

Later this year, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will take off from central Florida and carry a large metal cup to attach outside the International Space Station. The hardware is the first commercial airlock designed to bring payloads and other materials into a vacuum space inside a pressurized space station.
Airlock is a product of the aerospace company Nanoracks that helps individual customers gain access to space. To date, the company has created smaller, space-limited hardware, such as standardize…

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