perfidy

Bigelow Aerospace is launching a 1/3 scale prototype of its inflatable space habitat late next week, and will launch a second in September. Bigelow hopes that this technology will end up drastically lowering the cost of space travel by spurring the development of new space vehicles, while simultaneously making trillions as the first real estate developer in space. Hopefully, we will get habitats on a more human scale by decade’s end.

Bigelow, btw, is the same guy behind the next big space prize – the $50 meelion dollar giveaway for the first people to orbit the earth without spending government money.

You're up in orbit, crashing out in your inflatable zero-g lovenest. But there's this kickin party over in Lunar orbit. What do you do on the way out? Stop at a space gas station of course, and tank up on cryogenic fuels and beef jerky.

I promised Johno I wouldn't do it, but at least this time it's not the title of the post: the Chinkonauts are getting uppity