Bigelow is a private company that makes space station modules. Like the race to drastically reduce launch costs in rockets, Bigelow is working to reduce costs for space station modules.
Bigelow is a private company that makes space station modules. Like the race to drastically reduce launch costs in rockets, Bigelow is working to reduce costs for space station modules.
That is a very strange title.
Designed and manufactured by a private company. Launched into space by a private company. I shudder to think of what this would cost if NASA designed, built, and launched it.
Astronauts getting blow-up jobs... it was just a matter of time.
Except that the ISS doesn’t DO ANYTHING. Some rich dingbat diva is getting ready for her $52M joyride to the exclusive hotel in LEO.
Somehow, this reminds me of the combat jet aircraft that carried an inflatable raft in the cockpit in case the pilot had to ditch over water. The result was several crashes that occurred when the device accidently inflated while in flight. The solution was to give each pilot a dagger, mounted near the control stick that could be used to deflate the raft. I wonder if the ISS is so equipped?
And that will be pretty much all that is left of ISS after the Russians take their parts in a few years to build there own station.
“It will give us so much extra space in our room to do activities!”
Bigelow Aerospace Shows Off Its Vision for Expandable Space Stations
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/bigelow-aerospace-shows-its-expandable-space-station-future-n322521
Cool! It’s about time people living in orbit had reverse bouncy castles.