http://futurismic.com/2007/07/10/could-bigelows-inflatables-replace-the-international-space-station/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Sat, 19 May 2012 23:03:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://futurismic.com/2007/07/10/could-bigelows-inflatables-replace-the-international-space-station/comment-page-1/#comment-11689 Could Bigelow’s inflatables replace the International Space Station? Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:30:27 +0000 http://futurismic.com/2007/07/10/could-bigelows-inflatables-replace-the-international-space-station/#comment-11689 [...] Could Bigelow’s inflatables replace the International Space Station? Could Bigelow’s inflatables replace the International Space Station? July 10th, 2007 — blog Bigelow Aerospace is certainly on a roll with their inflatable orbital module projects, demonstrating that you don’t need a vast Federal budget to get functional capsules into space. Colony Worlds suggests that such low-tech success stories will erode political support for the ISS, which will become increasingly hard to maintain once the Space Shuttle is retired. Will this be the tipping point for the [...] [...] Could Bigelow’s inflatables replace the International Space Station? Could Bigelow’s inflatables replace the International Space Station? July 10th, 2007 — blog Bigelow Aerospace is certainly on a roll with their inflatable orbital module projects, demonstrating that you don’t need a vast Federal budget to get functional capsules into space. Colony Worlds suggests that such low-tech success stories will erode political support for the ISS, which will become increasingly hard to maintain once the Space Shuttle is retired. Will this be the tipping point for the [...]

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