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Coming Soon to an Orbit Near You: Inflatable Space Stations

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In need of some space in low orbit? Soon, you can just pay rent for it, if things go according to plan.

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Bigelow

Las Vegas space startup Bigelow Aerospace just announced an ambitious—and gleefully money-grubbing—new plan to build at least two inflatable space stations and lob them into orbit starting just four years from now.

The stations would function as space hotels, orbital factories, and zero-gravity research labs.

Bigelow’s so-called B330 balloon-stations—named for their fully-expanded...

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