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| NASA Building 'Space Habitats' Near the Moon
It's not quite the Star Trek Enterprise but NASA has revealed it's developing "deep space habitats," which will house astronauts in outer space in the future. The space agency's NextSTEP-2 program, which has a budget of around $65 million, aims to both advance the commercial development of space while also allowing for the further exploration of deep space. The hope is for the habitats to support missions in the area of space near the moon, which will be the testing ground for trips to Mars. Before any of that though, the habitats first have to be designed and built, with full scale prototypes being constructed here on Earth first so scientists can test the designs and see how they might operate once launched into space and make sure they are "well thought out." Like the International Space Station, these newly designed habitats will have to not only be a home for the astronauts but will also have to allow