As space station astronauts opened the world’s first inflatable space habitat Monday and floated inside, its developer was already busy lining up an even bigger addition to the orbiting station.

Designed to be an independent space station, Bigelow Aerospace’s B330 will have its own life-support and propulsion systems, capable of supporting a crew of four indefinitely and could work just about ...

Bigelow Aerospace and United Launch Alliance (ULA) are working together to launch a B330 expandable module on ULA’s Vulcan launch vehicle. The launch would place a B330 outfitted module in Low Lunar ...

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico—Bigelow Aerospace says it will begin taking deposits from would-be space clients for its B330 flexible space habitat for the first time in early 2018, paving the way for launch ...

NASA has awarded a $17.8 million contract to Bigelow Aerospace to provide a Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), which is scheduled to arrive at the space station in 2015 for a two-year ...

Bigelow Aerospace has been working on inflatable space habitats for a while now. The company sent a small inflatable unit to the ISS that added a small living area on the space station and it ...

A half-year has passed since astronauts aboard the International Space Station successfully inflated a new habitat, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM. On Tuesday, the space agency ...

Bigelow Aerospace, a company devoted to manufacturing inflatable space habitats, says it’s planning to put one of its modules into orbit around the Moon within the next five years. The module going to ...

The team for the NASA-Bigelow Aerospace habitat test lines up in front of the Bigelow Mars Transporter Testing Unit at the company’s Nevada headquarters. (Bigelow Aerospace Photo) Bigelow Aerospace ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) will stay attached to the International Space ...

Bigelow Aerospace — the Las Vegas-based company manufacturing space habitats — is starting a spinoff venture aimed at managing any modules that the company deploys into space. Called Bigelow Space ...