"JF Mezei" wrote in message
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On 2016-01-28 14:22, Fred J. McCall wrote:
bob haller wrote:

congress passeda law prohibiting inflatables on ISS.....
Uh, no. Cite?


As I recall, when ISS budgets were ballooning, Congress started to
tighten the noose around NASA's neck to stop overspending.

It so happened that the Bigelow concept came to the table at the wrong
time and even if it was a great idea, Congress specifically prohibited
NASA from spending any money on it (and I believe at same time as the
"do not spend research money on manned mission to mars but not sure).

It is not clear to me if those decisions were permanent or just for a
couple of budget cycles.

Sort of. They explicitly said not to spend money on Transhab, because of
the budget at the time.

But there was no specific law outlawing inflatables in general.

Bigelow came after Transhab was cancelled.


As I recall, when shuttle was killed, a whole bunch of stuff was
rewritten, including giving NASA carte blanche to study/spend on manned
mission to Mars (hence Ares, Orion and now SLS.) Have no idea what
happened to the original restrictions on the Bigelow hab module.

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