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By: Personal Spaceflight » Questions about Bigelow’s plans

Personal Spaceflight » Questions about Bigelow’s plans — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:43:14 +0000

[…] Bigelow Aerospace announced details about its business plan. Some of those details were released in the earlier Aviation Week article, although company founder Robert Bigelow issued for the first time some pricing information: a […]

By: Chance

Chance — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:04:57 +0000

60-70 countries with 5-7000 proffessional astronauts? If we take this statement at face value, and furthermore assume it is pretty close to correct (even half those numbers would be impressive), then there are going to be some very intersting socio-polictical implications. Will little countries rent out modules ajacent to modules of hostile big countries to score political points?? Will there be industrial espionage? What legal jurisdictions will there be? How will customs (as in customs and borders) policy be affected? We’re looking at a real wild west up there in the near future if we aren’t careful.

By: Jeff Foust

Jeff Foust — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 00:15:24 +0000

Sam: Bigelow has previously claimed (including in an interview with me last July) that he sees a big market in serving foreign space agencies, countries that might be interested in renting a space space station for a time, flying its own astronauts there, and carrying out experiments (or simply flying the flag, so to speak.) In July he told me that he estimated there were 60-70 countries that could be potential customers for such services. How realistic that is remains to be seen, but presumably he's done his homework.

By: Sam Dinkin

Sam Dinkin — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 21:17:41 +0000

Bigelow denies being a space hotel, but who will rent out his station? If it’s private citizens going on holiday, it’s a hotel. What other demand is there?