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Old September 26th 06, 08:41 PM posted to sci.space.policy
Jeff Findley
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Default Lockheed and Bigelow Human-Rated EELV deal


"Rand Simberg" wrote in message
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On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:11:00 -0400, in a place far, far away, "Jeff
Findley" made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

Perhaps Bigelow's space station will allow the visitors to do more
than the limited activities allowed on ISS, so they'll be able to charge a
higher price per flight?


There are a number of ways that they could differentiate it (not
having to do a lot of training in Russia, for one thing).


Along the same lines is not having to learn any Russian. I suppose anything
that saves time equates to money when you're a busy multi-multi-millionaire.
;-)

Getting away from ISS would enable you to do "stunts", like EVA, that would
otherwise be difficult to arrange on ISS.

Jeff
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