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Space

Interview: From UFOs to space stations

By Robert Bigelow

9 January 2008

Video: Bigelow Aerospace has already sent two prototypes of its inflatable space station into orbit and plans to start leasing its space stations in 2010

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A Las Vegas real-estate billionaire with an active interest in the paranormal, Robert Bigelow might seem an unlikely candidate to transform the commercial space industry. Yet he is making an impact. In 2006 his company, Bigelow Aerospace, launched a small prototype inflatable space station into orbit around the Earth, followed by a second in 2007. By 2010 he aims to have…

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