Bigelow Aerospace Fast-Tracks Manned Spacecraft

Raver32 writes "Following the successful launch and deployment of two inflatable space modules, on Monday the owner and founder of Bigelow Aerospace announced plans to move ahead with the launch of its first human habitable spacecraft, the Sundancer. The decision to fast-track Sundancer was made in part due to rising launch costs as well as the ability to test some systems on the ground, company CEO Robert Bigelow said in a press statement. 'As anyone associated with the aerospace industry is aware, global launch costs have been rising rapidly over the course of the past few years,' Bigelow is quoted as saying. 'These price hikes have been most acute in Russia due to a number of factors including inflation, previous artificially low launch costs and the falling value of the US dollar.'"

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who tagged this Science ?

[savuporo]

Where is the science in it ? Its pure commercial development, it has nothing to do with NASA or CERN, apart from the technology heritage. Space is finally becoming a place of conducting other business apart from telecom and remote sensing sats, and you tag it the boring old "science" ?