Space Station Gets Experimental New Room with Installation of BEAM Expandable Habitat

The International Space Station (ISS) grew in size today, April 16, following the successful installation of an experimental new room - the BEAM expandable habitat module. Engineers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston used the space station's high tech robotic arm to pluck the small module known as the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) out from the unpressurized rear truck section of the recently arrived SpaceX Dragon cargo freighter, and added it onto the orbiting laboratory compl...