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Hotel Tycoon Pushes Inflatable Space Stations

Posted by timothy on from the bigelow-is-more-than-spiced-teas dept.

heptapod writes "Reclusive millionaire and motel tycoon Robert Bigelow has announced launching inflatable space stations through his personal aerospace firm. He's working off of NASA's TransHab designs and hopes to get launch one as early as November 2005! I'm sure after someone wins the X Prize they'll need someplace to stay the night. I wonder if each inflatable station module won't come with complimentary bibles."

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  1. off of? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    sed s/"off of"/from

  2. Living in a bubble by cybermint · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I don't know if I'd feel safe staying in a bubble knowing that's there is all kinds of pointy pieces of space junk floating around in orbit.

  3. Re:Nut job? by pipingguy · · Score: -1, Redundant


    cattle mutilations associated with UFO-type activity

    Please forgive me, but I must now reference "Cows Jumping Over The Moon". Younger readers will likely not 'get' this, having been raised on Barney the Purple Dinosaur, Teletubbies and other fairy tales such as "Star Trek is great" and "agents do not recommend that good actresses get boob jobs" (see Shawnee Smith and Catherine Bell).