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Bigelow Aerospace

Bigelow habitat mockup

Bigelow Aerospace and NASA test earthly mockup of interplanetary space station

Bigelow Aerospace opened up its ground-based prototype for a space station module — or perhaps even a Mars transport habitat… Read More

Kate Rubins in BEAM module

Bigelow aims to sell rides to space station on SpaceX Dragon ships for $52M a seat

Just days after NASA laid out its ground rules for commercial travel to the International Space Station, Nevada-based Bigelow Space… Read More

B330-based space station

Billionaire Robert Bigelow sets up new company to operate future space stations

Nevada-based Bigelow Aerospace has had space modules in orbit for more than a decade, but now billionaire founder Robert Bigelow… Read More

Lunar depot

Bigelow Aerospace and ULA widen their sights to plan an outpost in lunar orbit

NASA is shifting its attention to the moon, and so are Bigelow Aerospace and United Launch Alliance: Today the two… Read More

Blue Origin and other space companies urge Congress to boost FAA’s funding

When senators asked executives from Blue Origin and other commercial space ventures what they could do to help them at… Read More

BEAM module

Astronauts get their first look inside BEAM, the first expandable space habitat

Nine days after the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module was blown up to its full volume, astronauts entered the bedroom-sized BEAM… Read More

BEAM module

After snags, BEAM space module expands to its full volume – like a bag of popcorn

It took almost eight hours, but NASA accomplished the first expansion of a pop-up module at the International Space Station… Read More

BEAM module

Fabric too stiff? NASA gets set for second try to expand BEAM space module

Update: NASA will make its second attempt to inflate the Bigelow Expandable Space Module starting at around 6 a.m. PT… Read More

International Space Station

More frontiers lie ahead as International Space Station makes its 100,000th orbit

The International Space Station registered its 100,000th orbit around the planet today, providing NASA with a news hook for looking at what… Read More

Bigelow Aerospace BA 330 module

Bigelow Aerospace and ULA plan to launch supersized space station module in 2020

DENVER – Bigelow Aerospace and United Launch Alliance have announced a plan to launch Bigelow’s B330 expandable space module aboard an… Read More

SpaceX Falcon 9 landing

SpaceX lands Falcon rocket at sea after launching a pop-up room to space station

SpaceX launched a Dragon cargo capsule today with an expandable module for the International Space Station, and then successfully landed the… Read More

SpaceX gets ready to launch expandable module for NASA to test on space station

For the first time, SpaceX is due to launch an entire room to the International Space Station – a room that… Read More

FAA opens way for companies to stake claims to lunar rights

Do we have the right to reserve rights to the moon? Apparently so. At least that’s the message the U.S. government… Read More

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