A modular human habitat simulator for providing an environment on Earth
that approximates, in a controlled test situation, a number of conditions
expected to exist when an inflatable modular habitat is deployed into
Earth orbit. The simulator has a housing with a rigid wall defining an
internal volume, a longitudinal axis, a first and second opposing
openings along the longitudinal axis, the rigid wall having an exterior
surface, and an interior surface where the interior surface is generally
the shape of an interior surface of a deployed inflatable shell of a
modular human habitat, and the internal volume is substantially that of a
deployed inflatable modular human habitat volume.