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Inflatable space stations take off

Read our interview with Robert Bigelow from Bigelow Aerospace: http://www.newscientist.com... Bigelow Aerospace has already sent two prototypes of its inflatable space station into orbit and plans...  
 
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patio87 (3 days ago) Show Hide
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New scientist has the worst narrators.
nerox2006x (1 week ago) Show Hide
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The ISS costs 100 billion dollars, imagine if we buit it out of inflatable modules like this. It would be bigger and probably alot cheaper! This is why Obama wants NASA to go private...
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Why not have an American company deliver the payload needed for Genesis I instead of Russian space agency. SpaceX for example is already preparing to deliver payloads for NASA to the ISS.
magic2224 (2 months ago) Show Hide
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so... what does this thing doo i dont know what it does does'nt make any sense :\
702LTR450 (5 months ago) Show Hide
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bigelow is the shit, im trying to get a job there now.
Caliosg (6 months ago) Show Hide
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whats happens to it when they finish with it then. does it come back to earth or do they just leave it?
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beardmuffin (10 months ago) Show Hide
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Holy ficking shit
Disneyworld99 (1 year ago) Show Hide
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Unfortunately, losing life has to be a part of war, War most of the time is not about killing the other person, it's about frightening the other person into submission so that you can control them.
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O.o did i just solve world wars?

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