Bigelow Aerospace's Space Station

Bigelow Aerospace Vice President Jay Ingham provides this overview of the company's commercial space station plans using scale models at the International Symposium for Private and Commercial Spaceflight.

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[mattetjus]

Virgin will not be going into earth orbit, they are only suborbital - they'd need like 10 times more power to get there. SpaceX on the other hand will have the ability to serve/cooperate with Bigelow.

Virgin = amusement for rich people. Sure, if i had the dough, why not.. but it just up, feel weightless and fall back down again

[SteeVeeDeeBoy]

Wish someone would gag that bloody woman in the background....

[Artūras Petrikėnas]

Next space station needs to have simulated gravity

[Zypofaeser]

SpaceX + Bigelow = AWESOME!

[devwreck192]

Lol that's hilarious...and a very good idea.

[Sarge Rho]

The thing about government spending, is the huge ammount of red tape government institutions have to put up with. You could probably build a space elevator from all that red tape xD

[Sarge Rho]

Actually, they are building the Launcher One, which is intended to be launched from Knight Flight, Spaceship Two's carrier, and carry small sattelite - up to 300lbs I think - into LEO.

[MrFrogmasterG]

at 3:17 he stated 100 metric tons,

[joe biden]

Too Slow they got the idea but why don't they just build it faster was ther like money problem or somthing or what.

[devwreck192]

Do you need anymore proof of the government's wasteful mismanagement of our tax dollars? Look at what Bigelow Aerospace has done. If they were in charge of building the International Space Station, it would've taken a fraction of the time to build at a fraction of the price. And it would've been an exclusively American project.

[PatriotsRepublic]

100,000 metric tons is 220,462,262lbs... I think this guy meant 100 metric tons which would max out the largest known heavy lift vehicle at around 220,000lbs.