[Vince Ferrer]

Unbeknownst to many, there is a little known company call Bigelow Aerospace quietly gearing up in North Las Vegas. They build space habitat modules that can be used in orbit, on the moon, or on Mars. Their modules are bigger, better, and cheaper than the modules we built the space station with. SpaceX reusable rockets + Bigelow modules = Cities in space. Forget the Russians. Give them the old clunky station.

2014 Bigelow Aerospace Promotional Video

[cripplecreek]

Bigelow Aerospace is exactly who I would turn to for building a station on the moon.

[rktman]

I remember during the early days of the shuttle program, we did do some studies into letting the external tanks get to orbit and after venting off the left over LH2 and LO2, using them for habitats. Heck, the LH2 tank was 53k cubic feet by itself. Of course it never came to fruition.

[PapaBear3625]

NASA orders missions to resupply space station in 2017

NASA has ordered four additional launches to deliver cargo to the International Space Station in 2017 — three from SpaceX and one from Orbital ATK — to cover the research lab’s logistics needs until a new set of resupply contracts take effect.

The extra missions for SpaceX and Orbital ATK will serve as a bridge between the contractors’ current contracts and new commercial cargo deals that will cover resupply missions launching from 2018 through at least 2020.

SpaceX and Orbital ATK won Commercial Resupply Services contracts from NASA in December 2008, covering 12 cargo deliveries by SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and eight missions with Orbital ATK’s Cygnus supply ship.

[Talisker]

Mega cool, thx!