http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7133144/
Company fine-tunes space module plans
Launch set for early 2006 on Russian-Ukrainian rocket
Space entrepreneur Robert Bigelow has been making quiet inroads into the development of Earth orbiting inflatable modules. The privately built and financed habitable structures would be available for research, manufacturing and other uses, including lodging for future space tourists.
Bigelow Aerospace of North Las Vegas is eyeing launch early next year of Genesis Pathfinder spacecraft — a shakeout of systems to be used on a full-scale inflatable space structure dubbed the Nautilus, and now referred to as the BA-330.
Robert Bigelow, owner of the Budget Suites of America Hotel Chain, among other ventures, is investing his own money in the inflatable space module idea.
OOOOPS!!! There you go again!
The thing with Las Vegas is that he won't accept outside investment. He will need a lot more than his $ half billion to get anyplace. He is one that ought to get behind the withdrawal from the 1967 Treaty and get into real money.