On Sunday, the SpaceX CRS-8 Dragon spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station, carrying in its “trunk” the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module or BEAM. Based on a press conference held today at the 32nd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs however, BEAM may be only the beginning of Bigelow’s presence at ISS, and the future may […]
A collection of papers just released at the journal New Space makes the argument that thanks to advances by SpaceX. Bigelow Aerospace and others, the United States is in a position mount a return to the Moon and construction of a permanent base housing 6-10 people at the lunar North Pole in approximately 10 years […]
As with so much else, nobody really knows. In the week which came between two launches towards the one destination almost everyone agrees is the ultimate goal of human spaceflight, at least at current technology levels, three press events shed a little light on the upcoming decision point facing the American space program. First, the […]
A very interesting solicitation from NASA suggests the agency is sticking its toe in the water a little further in incorporating commercial capabilities into its long-term plans. Titled Collaborations for Commercial Space Capabilities, the NASA synopsis, which is calling for unfunded Space Act Agreements, begins with: ” NASA encourages innovative and entrepreneurial efforts within the private sector to develop new space-related […]
On Thursday, May 23 at 1:30 p.m. EDT, NASA Associate Administrator Bill Gerstenmaier and Bigelow Aerospace founder and president Robert Bigelow will hold a “media availability” to discuss the Space Act Agreement between the two organizations. The event comes two months after the original document outlining the participation was signed in late March of this year, and almost midway through […]
Source: RIA Novosti Vladimir Popovkin, head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos said Saturday that British soprano Sarah Brightman may be bumped from a flight slot to ISS in 2015. According the report, NASA and Roscosmos may jointly decide to extend the duration of what would have been her flight from eight days to a month, effectively erasing her opportunity. Given that the purported […]
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