Bigelow Aerospace hiring former astronauts to man its space stations.

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
--
"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

Argh! IMO Bigelow is make a mistake putting NASA in the driver's seat.
They should be negotiating NOW with a provider, not hoping they can pick up crumbs left on the NASA table. As things stand right now that kind of strategy could easily blow up in Bigelow's face! I'd sure like to see them book launches on SLS "on margin"! *sheesh*

Dave

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

--

"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.

In article ,
says...
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.


You are the weakest link, goodbye! Plonk!

Jeff
--
"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

On Monday, July 14, 2014 4:25:00 AM UTC-7, Jeff Findley wrote:
In article ,

says...

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.





You are the weakest link, goodbye! Plonk!



Jeff

--

"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

Are you suggesting there are numerous Muslims running any parts of our NASA or DARPA?

Are you suggesting that BA employs other than all-whites?

Are you perhaps suggesting that BA doesn't actually employ any devout Semites?

Are you suggesting that all mainstream faith-based folks are always perfectly trustworthy?

Are you suggesting that all Atheists are getting treated with the same respect and given the exact same benefits and opportunities?

Are you suggesting that our upper caste mafias, cabals and cartels simply do not exist?

Are you from some other planet where telling of lies or obfuscation of any degree is punished by death? (because that's sure as hell not how it works here)