Or next new thing in outer space?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20110612/us_ac/8627397_bigelow_plans_first_private_space_station_by_2016_warns_of_chinese_lunar_land_grab;_ylt=Av0G47Ne8VauJp6ACL2mrbwPLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTUwbHY4bGs5BGFzc2V0A2FjLzIwMTEwNjEyLzg2MjczOTdfYmlnZWxvd19wbGFuc19maXJzdF9wcml2YXRlX3NwYWNlX3N0YXRpb25fYnlfMjAxNl93YXJuc19vZl9jaGluZXNlX2x1bmFyX2xhbmRfZ3JhYgRwb3MDMTEEc2VjA3luX2FydGljbGVfc3VtbWFyeV9saXN0BHNsawNiaWdlbG93cGxhbnM-
The Next Big Future recently checked in on Bigelow Aerospace, which plans to deploy a private space station in low Earth orbit by 2016. Robert Bigelow, the company's CEO, also had some blunt things to say about the Chinese.
More than the heavily government subsidized rocket companies such as SpaceX, real hopes for a vibrant commercial space sector resides in corporations like Bigelow. So far the government is at once the prime investor and the sole customer of the commercial launch companies it is funding under President Barack Obama's space policy.
(Article does continue.)
(With a 'scare tactic' regarding the Chinese
attempting to claim large swaths of the moon.)
Zim.
Mad Poet Strikes Again.
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