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acmejack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-12-06 04:59 PM
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Launch for inflatable spacecraft
An inflatable spacecraft that could form the basis of a future space hotel has blasted into space.

The Genesis craft has been built by commercial company Bigelow Aerospace, set up by hotel tycoon Robert Bigelow.

The folded experimental module launched from Siberia on a converted Russian intercontinental ballistic missile.

Once the watermelon-shaped craft - based on a design discarded by Nasa - is safely established in orbit, it will be inflated to full size.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5173388.stm
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-12-06 05:00 PM
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1. And will it be operated by inflatable dolls?

:yoiks:



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dubeskin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-12-06 05:05 PM
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2. Hopefully. Now that is a good hotel.
;)
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acmejack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-12-06 05:06 PM
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3. Don't know, but it figures that it is something NASA developed
and discarded as worthless! They will probably make a mint off it, lets watch for any profiteering by those certain people (if you know who I mean)
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