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Inside Johnson Space Center’s Building 9, Starlab’s multi-floor mockup already occupies the training floor alongside hardware from SpaceX and Blue Origin — an early glimpse of how the historic astronaut-training facility could evolve as NASA transitions from the ISS to commercially operated stations around 2030.

Starlab's three-level ground mockup is taking shape inside Building 9, turning NASA's planned shift from an agency-owned ISS to commercially operated stations into a human-scale test. The post Inside Johnson Space Center’s Building 9, Starl…

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  1. SpaceDaily
    Inside Johnson Space Center’s Building 9, Starlab’s multi-floor mockup already occupies the training floor alongside hardware from SpaceX and Blue Origin — an early glimpse of how the historic astronaut-training facility could evolve as NASA transitions from the ISS to commercially operated stations around 2030.