Habitation Module
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The U.S.-built Habitation Module was scheduled to be the International Space Station's main living quarters. About the size of a bus, it was to have sleeping quarters for four people. Astronauts and visiting researchers would be able to shower, cook food in the galley and relax in the wardroom.
After its pressurized hull had already been built, the Habitation Module was put on hold pending further developments of the plans for the International Space Station. In order to accommodate more than three people on the ISS, a lifeboat craft other than a single Soyuz TMA would be needed and such a Crew Return Vehicle was not there at that time. Later in the project, budget constraints and delays to the space station due to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster caused it to be definitively cancelled. On February 14, 2006 it was decided to recycle the Habitation Module for ground-based Life Support Research for future missions.
At various points in the design of the International Space Station, an inflatable Transhab module with several times the space of the initial design was considered as an alternative to the Habitation module.
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- Habitation extension module - proposed ISS module
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