Possible Partnership Between Bigelow and Virgin Galactic

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Doug Messier
on September 30, 2009, at 11:34 am
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Exterior view of Bigelow Aerospace's Genesis II

Exterior view of Bigelow Aerospace's Genesis II

A brief report from a site called City A.M. about a possible partnership between Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic and Bigelow Aerospace:

“It is early days and no formal talks have happened yet, but we have an ambition of later taking people to space hotels in the second phase of Galactic’s growth,” says Virgin Galactic president Will Whitehorn. “Bigelow have a fantastic inflatable technology which may be the answer, not just in orbit, but also in future on the moon…”

All this is some ways off. Virgin has to even flight test its suborbital SpaceShipTwo vehicle, much less produce a successor capable of reaching orbit. Bigelow has launched two sub-scale prototype space stations, but it is still awaiting an affordable transport to shuttle passengers to its planned full-scale Sundancer facility.

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  • Buyck

    Al last !!! Bigelow rise from the bottom whit there program, its time to move forward and make spacetravel interesting for civilians. Time to commercialise.

  • Ken

    Better yet, instead of all these partnerships, let’s have Bigelow launch their supposed “hotel” (the one they’ve been talking about for so long) and let’s have Virgin launch their supposed “Spaceshiptwo” (the one THEY’VE been talking about for so long). Once the two companies prove themselves as something more than daydreamers, THEN they should have a partnership. Until then, I’m waiting for their initial promises to be fulfilled before the next step.