Earlier, flanked by the giant inflatable space habitat, Bigelow told reporters that he supported NASA’s plan for a lunar space station. And if the massive prototype to his left wasn’t a huge ...

BEAM's time attached to the orbiting lab should provide a key test for expandable space habitats, which represent a dramatic departure from traditional metallic designs. [Bigelow's Inflatable ...

NASA has signed a $17.8 million contract with Bigelow Aerospace, a firm based near Las Vegas, to build an inflatable habitat that could be added to the space station by 2015. The new compartment ...

[Inflatable Space Stations of Bigelow Aerospace (Infographic)] Inflatable habitats like BEAM offer the possibility to build large habitats on the ground and send them to space in much smaller ...

Space travelers of the future, however, may instead cruise in cushy inflatable pads ... partners can build the best habitat. One such company, Bigelow Aerospace, is taking a slightly different ...

Bigelow Aerospace, a company devoted to manufacturing inflatable space habitats, says it’s planning to put one of its modules into orbit around the Moon within the next five years. The module ...

The companies reach agreement to launch the habitat to support NASA and industry moon missions. United Launch Alliance and Bigelow Aerospace plan to put an inflatable habitat in orbit near the ...

Bigelow Aerospace and its ground-breaking work ... which is working on inflatable habitats for Earth orbit, the moon and Mars. And Sierra Space is involved as well, developing a habitat called ...

Bigelow's inflatable space habitat has been under development for a few years, but now it seems that the prototype for the someday space hotel is ready to fly. On April 8, SpaceX will launch a ...

On its next trip to the International Space Station (ISS), SpaceX will be carrying an inflatable space habitat built by Bigelow Aerospace. The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) will be ...

Las Vegas–based Bigelow Aerospace—which is currently building inflatable, orbital habitats to rent to customers—will be recycling these fluids to power the station's thrusters. The system ...

BEAM's time attached to the orbiting lab should provide a key test for expandable space habitats, which represent a dramatic departure from traditional metallic designs. [Bigelow's Inflatable ...