It seemed to break down into an excess of photons, such that it might potentially reveal something unexpected about dark matter and the structure of space-time.
They hope to drive the program into a political and technological dead-end by denying it the synergy and efficiency that can come from an integrated management structure and by diverting funds from space- to ground-based defensive systems.
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His venture, Bigelow Aerospace , is using technology originally developed by NASA to develop inflatable habitats, each one of which could be shipped into space, blown up to about the size of a three-bedroom house and connected to a structure such as the International Space Station.
When attitude -- or position -- control is lost on a structure like the space station, it begins to tumble.
Within the structure is about 290 square feet of den-like space holding a sofa, small rugs and stacks of DVDs and books.
For Maker Space, Situ designed a plywood 3-pin arch structure that celebrates themes of craft, assembly and connection.
But the structure floats on a one-story wall of glass and the high interior space is beautifully shaped by a small forest of cone lamps descending from the roof to just above table height.
Twenty feet wide, it is the building's organizing element and circulation spine, connecting the first four floors and continuing upward with bridges across the space and a narrower stair above as it ascends to the structure's full nine-story height.
But in the vacuum of space the tiny amount of air trapped between them would inflate to create a semi-rigid structure.
Single-sourcing space transportation capability will just result in a new monopoly and will evolve the same cost structure as the old.
MoMA officials, who are looking to hire an architect for the addition on the folk-art site, have said they expected the new structure to contain 10, 000 square feet of gallery space.
The American section of the show, at the Whitney, organized by Phyllis Lambert with K. Michael Hays, adjunct curator of architecture, deals with Mies's development of modular construction, from the long, low buildings of the Illinois Institute of Technology's Chicago campus, which he designed as head of its architecture department, to his high-rise apartments and offices and his ultimate vision, the resolution of structure and enclosure as monumental, universal space.
Clinging to the edge of the San Jacinto Mountains, the structure embraces the elements via a boulder that crashes through the north wall like a meteor and partitions the open-plan space.
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