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WASHINGTON, D.C. - NASA has awarded a $17.8 million contract to Bigelow Aerospace to add one of its expandable modules to the International Space Station. The plan is to demonstrate the inflatable ...

The international space station is getting a new, inflatable room that resembles a giant spare tire, NASA announced Wednesday. Slated to launch in mid-2015, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or ...

NASA astronaut Jeff Williams and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka floated into the International Space Station's newest habitat Monday, possibly paving the way for private space stations in the years ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A prototype of an inflatable space station module successfully expanded and deployed its solar panels after being launched into orbit, developer Bigelow Aerospace said. A Russian ...

Max Space says its inflatable architecture can be easily scaled to larger sizes. Credit: Max Space COLORADO SPRINGS—Startup Max Space has manifested an inflatable space station module on a SpaceX ...

NASA is considering attaching a Bigelow Aerospace inflatable module to the International Space Station, in a return to a concept the agency had more than a decade ago. In 1997 the US space agency ...

The Bigelow Aerospace project to privately develop inflatable Earth-orbit space modules is beginning to integrate diverse U.S. and European technologies into subscale and full-scale inflatable test ...

NASA's then-Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and President and founder of Bigelow Aerospace Robert T. Bigelow, announce a planned addition to the International Space Station that will use the orbiting ...