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Proposed inflatable lunar habitat designed to allow a two-week stay on the lunar surface. It would have been carried on the LM in place of the LRV unless the mission was a Dual LM mission. The attached pictures depict the deployment sequence.
Lunar Stay Time Extension Module (STEM)
https://app.box.com/s/jix7zu3wbp03a6gdc8k1qcei00oa29xb
The following is a 1971 study into the leakage rate of the prototype.
Investigation of packaging, deployment, and leak-rate characteristics of an inflatable lunar-shelter model (1971)
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19710028062.pdf
Lunar Stay Time Extension Module (STEM)
https://app.box.com/s/jix7zu3wbp03a6gdc8k1qcei00oa29xb
The following is a 1971 study into the leakage rate of the prototype.
Investigation of packaging, deployment, and leak-rate characteristics of an inflatable lunar-shelter model (1971)
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19710028062.pdf
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