This is big!Under PressureNASA announced yesterday that its forthcoming Gateway lunar space station — an outpost designed to house astronauts in the Moon’s orbit — just passed a critical milestone.According to the agency, Gateway’s Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) successfully passed a grueling round of “static load testing,” defined by NASA as a “rigorous stress test of how well the structure responds to the forces encountered in deep space.”In other words, HALO won’t crumble or crack under the extreme conditions it’ll face in lunar orbit.”Static load testing is one of…
