The next step into commercial space flight

Bigelow launches inflatable sausage casing - ehh space module.

[jecasc]

[news.bbc.co.uk...]

"An inflatable spacecraft that could form the basis of a future space hotel has blasted into space."

According to the article the first guests in Bigelows hotel will be ant colonies and scorpions.

As it seems what is still missing for hotels in space is some transportion:

"Mr Bigelow is offering a $50m prize to anyone that can demonstrate a craft capable of carrying five people to a height of 400km (250 miles) before 2010."

So if you want to make some extra cash...

[Brett_Tabke]

I think that is incredibly cool. It is about time some fresh minds started to attack the problem of getting into orbit and staying into orbit cheaply.