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Gateway gift: Northrop Grumman delivers lunar-orbit hab for Space Center Houston display

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Northrop Grumman donated the "ground prototype" of the cislunar habitat that it built in 2019 .

The 14.5-foot wide by 21-foot-long ( 4.4 by 6.4 meters ) module was used by NASA to evaluate the its configuration as compared to other companies' concepts.

Guests will be able to experience "a day in the life" aboard the habitat.

Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com .

He is also a contributing writer for Space.com and co-author of " Space Stations: The Art, Science , and Reality of Working in Space" In 2021 , he was honored by the American Astronautical Society with the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History..