Topic: Robert Bigelow

Space taxi delays spur Bigelow Aerospace layoffs

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (Reuters) - A start-up space company building inflatable habitats for commercial and government lease has laid off half its staff because of delays developing space taxis needed to fly people to the outposts, the company president said on Wednesday ...
Space entrepreneur Robert Bigelow, chief of Bigelow Aerospace, has been busy marketing his private space modules, an outreach effort leading to six deals being signed with clients this year. "These are countries that do not want to be hostage to just what ...

BOEING IN SPACE

Boing is getting into the space tourism industry with a private spaceflight venture,joining with Space Adventures on september 15th.Thus heating up the speculative industries' competition.Boeing capital reserves will likley put the company intoa position as a leader in private ...
There was very little known about space tourism until the late 1900s with a major impact on the media developing about five years ago. Recently, Robert Bigelow has announced his company would be moving ahead with the launching of the Sundancer module ...
The list of rich men obsessed with space exploration is as long as an Apollo rocket. Robert Bigelow, a budget hotel-chain mogul, built a life-size space station in his well-guarded Bigelow Aerospace factory in Nevada.. These money comparisons were drawn out in ...
On May 27th I wrote an article about NASA going public which shed light on the subject in an imaginative and somewhat comedic way. Upon review of the New York Times this week, I found an article concerning the entrepreneurial path that ...

Another Customer for Commercial Crew Transportation

One of the major aspects of the debate about President Obama's new proposal for NASA to turn to commercial providers for launching astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) is whether there would be additional markets for such companies. Bigelow has ...

inflatable space stations

On the Las Vegas Strip, home of the biggest and most extravagant hotels in the world, shell-shocked tourists file past one stunningly ostentatious display after another. Still, when it comes to grand ambition, the impresarios of the Strip are mere pikers next ...
Robert Bigelow's inflatable space stations could get another look from NASA because of the space agency's new direction, but the space hotel visionary has already set his sights on the moon. The moon base would consist of three BA-330 inflatable ...

Help wanted: Space flight experience required

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - For astronauts worried about their future with NASA, good news:Bigelow Aerospace, a Las Vegas-based firm headed by hotelier Robert Bigelow, owner of Budget Suites of America, posted a recruitment notice for astronauts on its website.NASA's ...