# @nasaartemis on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BX0_f_ilkNI
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- **Posted:** 2017-08-15T20:33:41.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

## Caption

BEAM, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, (pictured) was installed to the Tranquility module with an external high definition camera. BEAM is an experimental expandable module; it launched to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX's eighth commercial resupply mission on April 8, 2016, and fully expanded and pressurized on May 28.

Expandable modules weigh less and take up less room on a rocket than a traditional module, and provide protection from solar and cosmic radiation, space debris, and other contaminants. Crews traveling to the moon, Mars, asteroids, or other destinations may be able to use them as habitable structures. 
Credit: NASA

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