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Improved Method of Design for Folding Inflatable Shells

Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
Thursday, October 01 2009
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Designs of gores reflect multiple considerations of assembly, stowage, and deployment.

An improved method of designing complexly shaped inflatable shells to be assembled from gores was conceived for original application to the inflatable outer shell of a developmental habitable spacecraft module having a cylindrical midlength section with toroidal end caps.

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