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Hotels in space?
Bigelow Aerospace's successful launch of the Genesis-1 on 12. July 2006 is
the first time a private company claims extraterrestrial space for human habitiation. It is planned to develop the modules eventually as a private space station. The image on this page shows the current position of the first Genesis module: http://satellite.ehabich.info/genesis.html Other news agencies had this to say: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5173388.stm http://www.raumfahrer.net/news/raumf...06153921.shtml I am not affiliated with Bigelow Aerospace. Erich Habich |
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Hotels in space?
Other news agencies had this to say:
Another good set of articles a http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0607/14bigelow/ http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0607/12bigelow/ http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0409/27bigelow/ which describe the schedule for Genesis 2, a series of 6 to 10 pathfinder missions, and the operational station. One of the striking things here is the large number of test flights. Compare with ISS, which featured few in-flight tests (I think there were a few tests of tools or other small pieces on the shuttle) and no backups for any of the operational hardware. |
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