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This week I had the great privilege to have Mr. Robert Bigelow, escort a colleague and me on a tour of Bigelow Aerospace facilities north of Las Vegas, Nevada. Mr. Bigelow founded Bigelow Aerospace in 1999. He is a native of Las Vegas, Nevada, and made his fortune from his construction and real estate development companies, as well Budget Suites of America.
Mr. Bigelow met us in his office and luckily he wanted to ...
Topics: Bigelow Aerospace, Commercial Space Articles, ISPCS, ISPCS, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium , Robert Bigelow
I recently had a conversation with Robert Bigelow, Founder and President of Bigelow Aerospace, about innovation and the commercial space industry.
"There is no single step by step process that necessarily applies to the creation of all technologies. The challenge is to select the most elegant solution," Bigelow said. "Ideas are easy to come by. The efficacy of the idea is what is important."
Bigelow will be one of a number of successful businessmen sharing ...
Topics: Bigelow Aerospace, International Space Station (ISS) , International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISPCS, ISPCS, NASA, NASA, NASA, NASA, NASA’s Commercial Crew Development program (CCDev) , New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium , New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program , Robert Bigelow, Space, SpaceNews, SpaceX
People who run marathons, scientists who live at the South Pole in winter, and even the firefighters in the Gila, have something in common. They have an innate drive to be autonomous, self-determined and connected to each other. Volunteering to be in a closed, hostile environment for months at a time is something International Space Station (ISS) astronauts and scientists who live at the South Pole have in common. When people are in an environment ...
Topics: Bigelow Aerospace, ISPCS, ISPCS, ISS, NASA, NASA, NASA, NASA, New Blogs, New Mexico , Space, Space Shuttle Atlantis , SpaceX, XCOR
CASIS - The Innovation FactoryHave you tried to buy a telephone lately? Not a cell phone or a smart phone, a telephone that operates on a land line. If you live in a rural part of New Mexico and get terrible phone reception, or live behind A Mountain and get terrible cell phone reception, and don't want to pay for "enhanced" cell phone service, a land line is necessary. Years ago I heard a ...
