"Jim Oberg" wrote in message
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The habitat could be used as an emergency safe haven during the Hubble
servicing

mission, and then could serve as a base for wider commercial and
exploratory

space travel.


Works for me. We have to stop thinking about "THE Space station" and think
about space stations.

Get Bigalow to front the cost of the module, NASA covers launch costs, after
Hubble repair mission, Bigalow assumes ownership and goes his own way.