Futurism

NASA is Planning to Add an Extra Airlock on the ISS, Then Lease it to Private Companies

NanoRacks, a Texas-based company specializing in commercial space utilization, is offering to build an airlock that will be attached to the space station and allow us to do things like deploy cubesats ...
Fast Company

Astronauts are taking out the ISS trash using Bishop Airlock

Earlier this month, astronauts disposed of some 172 pounds of trash from the International Space Station (ISS) using a completely new method: sending it out of the commercial Bishop Airlock designed, ...
SpaceNews

NanoRacks Commercial Space Station Airlock “Bishop” Completes Critical Design Review, Moves to Fabrication

The NanoRacks Space Station Airlock Module “Bishop” met another major milestone with completion of the Critical Design Review (CDR) on March 20 and 21, 2018 in Houston, Texas. This milestone begins ...
SpaceNews

NanoRacks presses ahead with private airlock

NanoRacks, which has used the airlock on the International Space Station's Kibo module to deploy dozens of customers' cubesats, wants to add its very own airlock to the ISS. Credit: NASA NanoRacks is ...
New Atlas

ESA dives into development of deep-space airlock for the Gateway outpost

If and when the Gateway outpost is deployed in 2023, it will need an airlock to get any useful work done, so ESA is working on a new egress point for scientific experiments for the cislunar manned ...