On Friday, July 11, 2014 2:04:06 PM UTC-7, Jeff Findley wrote:
Bigelow Aerospace Begins Hiring Round by Adding Former Astronauts Ham,

Zamka, By Dan Leone, Jul. 9, 2014, SpaceNews



http://tinyurl.com/q7t7rtl



From above:



Each Bigelow Aerospace space station would require about a

dozen astronauts, including orbital, ground and backup personnel.



and:



Bigelow Aerospace has yet to book a launch for the BA330

modules it is building. The company?s business case hinges

on the availability of domestic, commercially available

launch and crew vehicles. Bigelow plans to buy these on

margin from the winner of NASA?s commercial crew program,

under which the agency is nurturing development of vehicles

to ferry crews to and from the space station.



Jeff

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"the perennial claim that hypersonic airbreathing propulsion would

magically make space launch cheaper is nonsense -- LOX is much cheaper

than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in

and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer

Perhaps Bigelow Aerospace is a sufficiently all-white and Semitic kind of operation, in which case NASA as their prime directive is a smart move, because, most everything NASA gets public funded even regardless of whomever we elect or appoint.