NASA shuttle cargo container recycled as Mars habitat

It is an idea first conceived 50 years ago by the ex-Nazi ballistic missile engineer credited with inventing the V-2 rocket and revolutionising the American space programme. Now, Lockheed Martin has revealed its version of the system that could one day take man to Mars. The team will build a full-scale habitat prototype in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and a next-generation deep space avionics integration lab near Johnson Space Center. A full-scale prototype of the deep space habitat will be built by refurbishing the Donatello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) flown in the space shuttle payload bay and used to transfer cargo to the International Space Station. The recycled rocket programme was originally put forward by German aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun.