Karen Whitley, Expandable Structures for Exploration Task Lead

NASA plans to return to the Moon by 2020. For a sustained lunar presence, however, astronauts need habitats that can support them and their experments. To this end, researchers at NASA Langley, working with NASA contractor ILC Dover (Frederica, DE), are developing the "planetary surface habitat and airlock unit," a prototype inflatable structure that could be deployed on the lunar surface. Karen Whitley is the project lead.