'It's essentially just a corridor, where you have to turn 90 degrees if you want to stretch out.'
, or I-Hab, which is one of Gateway's two habitable elements, essentially bed rooms combined with lab space When working on the design, the architects had to bow down to practical demands dictated by the nature of the project, Waclavicek said.
"[The I-Hab] really is just a cylinder with a hatch on each end and two hatches at the sides and a corridor going through the length axis," Waclavicek said."Even if you want to pass one another, it's already quite difficult, you have to interrupt whatever you are doing in the moment to let the other fellow pass by you."
Somehow, the architects managed to incorporate about 53 cubic feet of private space protected by closing doors for each crew member living inside the i-Hab. But the experience of staying aboard the Gateway will be challenging for more reasons than the cramped living quarters alone. As Waclavicek said, most of the module will be occupied by noisy and vibrating life-support technology, the constant hum of which will likely badly grate on the nerves of most mere mortals.
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