The U.S. government has given payload approval to Bigelow Aerospace, permitting the entrepreneurial firm to launch its inflatable space module technology. Bigelow Aerospace of North Las Vegas has ...

This animated image shows four ways BEAM may expand in orbit once it has been attached to the International Space Station. This infographic gives facts about the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, ...

Blow-up rafts are just the thing for lounging at the pool, blow-up beds for a houseful of guests. But a blow-up spacecraft? It may sound more “Jetsons” than “Right Stuff,” but NASA is about to put the ...

NASA is considering attaching a Bigelow Aerospace inflatable module to the International Space Station, in a return to a concept the agency had more than a decade ago. In 1997 the US space agency ...

The Bigelow Aerospace project to privately develop inflatable Earth-orbit space modules is beginning to integrate diverse U.S. and European technologies into subscale and full-scale inflatable test ...

Bigelow Aerospace -- the company that created the inflatable module attached to the International Space Station-- laid off 20 employees last week. Yesterday, it laid off its 68 remaining workers.

Bigelow Aerospace has passed additional milestones en route to the flight test of unmanned, subscale versions of its planned Nautilus inflatable manned space station modules. The FAA's Office of ...

US space launch regulators have cleared a prototype Bigelow Aerospace inflatable space module for a scheduled orbital mission in November 2005. Payload certification by the Federal Aviation ...

It looks something like a popped Jiffy Pop popcorn pan (how many of you remember Jiffy Pop? Anyone? Bueller?), but if things go according to plan, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (above, behind ...

An inflatable space room The module is cylindrical, weighs roughly 3,000 pounds (1,360 kilograms) and is about 13 feet (4 meters) long and 10.5 feet (3.2 m) wide. Bigelow Aerospace's founder and ...

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