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#1 2022-03-21 06:52:31

louis
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What happened to Bigelow? Can anyone fill the gap?

Bigelow appears to have closed down (in 2020) and I can't find any mention of them starting up operations again.

I was surprised, especially as the USA is now moving towards creating a lunar base.

I was also disappointed as I had Bigelow down as a potential provider of expandable habitats for the first base on Mars.

Is there anyone else in the space habs business that people know of?

The question remains - what sort of habitats should we provide on Mars for the first base?


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#2 2022-03-21 07:07:22

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Re: What happened to Bigelow? Can anyone fill the gap?

A big shutdown with Corona and laid off employees due Covid last I heard or read of them, they plan some Moon or Space Station thingy but I don't know much beyond their PR and press. Bigelow himself I believe sued NASA and has provided financial support for investigations of UFOs or UAPs or whatever that 'de-classified release' was.
http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/pages/firstbase/
"First Base"".

NASA will spend $250,000 to keep the expandable BEAM Module operating on the ISS instead of abandoning it. (Bigelow forfeited ownership years ago).
https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/ … 7565093900

I think the growth of Musk and Space-X has taken a lot of the thunder away from the Bigelow hype.

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#3 2024-04-05 16:26:15

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Re: What happened to Bigelow? Can anyone fill the gap?

Robert Bigelow: DeSantis backer shifts support to Trump
https://theindependent.co/robert-bigelo … -to-trump/


He quit heading the Pentagon’s UFO office. Now a report of his has shaken up ufology
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 … stract.com

Opinion: The actual hidden truth about UFOs

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/opinion … -1.6800335



there was some tv at the Skinwalker Ranch, a 512-acre (205 ha) cattle ranch located in Utah that is the site of purported paranormal phenomena, such as atomic ghost conspiracy or some type of inter-dimensional shape-shifters?

UFO became popular in media, Travis Walton incident an alleged alien abduction of American forestry worker Travis Walton


The Travis Walton UFO Incident: A Compelling Yet Controversial Tale of Alien Abduction
https://stmdailynews.com/the-travis-wal … abduction/


it was made into a movie which might be described as a horror?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ADs3nkLk04

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