Orbiting Moonbounce.

The words hairbrained, crackpot and delusional came to mind when I read about a model inflatable spacestation set to be shot into orbit by a former Russian ICBM. Then I read that it'll cost $5- $10 million just for that flight, and Bigelow thinks that's cheap. My adjectives changed to eccentric, cavilier and pioneering. He's all set to drop half a billion dollars by 2015 on getting an inflatable hotel into orbit; and has placed another 50 million aside for whoever can invent a space taxi to it. I know, sounds like lunacy. But lets face it, all the great innovators were a little off. Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, Thomas Edison. So who am I to call anyone crazy? Apparently crazy people are often responsible for revolutionizing technology.

New Scientist SPACE - Breaking News - Model of inflatable space hotel set to launch

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