Fabric Holds Entrance Augment Closed.

Fabric Holds Entrance Augment Closed

The augment starts out inflated by way of a small hole cut into sacrificial fabric that helps hold the shape of the dome under pressure and before the frames are constructed inside. The crew will actually build a lot of the dome before removing that piece of fabric in order to maintain the shape of the dome and the attached augment.

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