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Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) Artist's Interpretation
Credit: Bigelow Aerospace
Artist’s conception of the private-sector supplied Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) to be launched around the summer of 2015.
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BEAM on the ISS
Credit: Bigelow Aerospace
New addition to the International Space Station, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) attached to Node 3 of the orbital complex.
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Inflation Factor: Bigelow Readies Test Module
Credit: Bigelow Aerospace
Room to grow! Bigelow Aerospace is busy plotting out a series of inflatable structures to be positioned in space.
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Robert Bigelow Portrait
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Bigelow Aerospace President Robert Bigelow talks during a press conference shortly after he and NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver toured the Bigelow Aerospace facilities on Friday, Feb. 4, 2011, in Las Vegas.
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Bigelow Alpha Station
Credit: Bigelow Aerospace
Artist’s view of the Bigelow Alpha Station comprised of two BA 330 expandable habitats built by private spaceflight company Bigelow Aerospace.
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Garver Tours Bigelow Aerospace
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver is given a tour of the Bigelow Aerospace facilities by the company’s President Robert Bigelow back in Feb. 2011, in Las Vegas. NASA has been discussing potential partnership opportunities with Bigelow for its inflatable habitat technologies as part of NASA's goal to develop innovative technologies to ensure that the U.S. remains competitive in future space endeavors.
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NASA and Bigelow Aerospace President Robert Bigelow
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver talks with Bigelow Aerospace President Robert Bigelow prior to touring their facilities on Feb. 4, 2011 in Las Vegas. NASA has been discussing potential partnership opportunities with Bigelow for its inflatable habitat technologies.
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Private Moon Bases Planned
Credit: Bigelow Aerospace
Space entrepreneur Robert Bigelow (left) discusses layout plans of the company's lunar base with Eric Haakonstad, one of the Bigelow Aerospace lead engineers.
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EXCLUSIVE: Bigelow Orbital Module Launched into Space
Tucked inside the nose fairing of a Dnepr booster, the Bigelow Aerospace Genesis-1 expandable module. Prototype hardware is a technology test for larger modules and a foothold on advanced habitable structures in space. Photo courtesy: Mike Gold
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Bigelow's Aerospace's Genesis 1
Credit: Bigelow Aerospace.
Bigelow Aerospace's Genesis 2 spacecraft is a near twin of Genesis 1, seen here in this self-portrait after its July 2006 launch.
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Bigelow Aerospace and Space Station
Credit: NASA
The International Space Station has modules a many – with discussions under way to attach a privately built Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM for short.
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Instant Moonbases
Credit: Bigelow Aerospace
Bigelow Aerospace engineers see an instant moon base by using a cluster of expandable modules that are piloted to the moon's surface.
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Our Future and the Moon
Credit: Bigelow Aerospace
Several private spaceflight companies are eyeing the moon as a destination for future space tourists like this one envisioned by entrepreneur Robert Bigelow of Bigelow Aerospace, who has already launched two space station module prototypes into orbit.
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Bigelow Moon Habitat
Credit: AMNH\D. Finnin
Made with walls of reinforced fabric, expandable spacecraft like this model by the private space company Bigelow Aerospace—shown here in one-third scale—may one day house astronauts on the moon.
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Bigelow Aerospace's Space Station Prototype
Credit: Bigelow Aerospace.
A picture on the end of one of the aft solar arrays looks toward the midsection of Genesis 2 as well as the forward solar panels.
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Bigelow Aerospace's Moon Vision
Credit: Clara Moskowitz/SPACE.com
A 1/30 scale model of a Bigelow Aerospace moon colony is prepared in the conservation department of the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
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Bigelow Space Module Concepts
Credit: Bigelow Aerospace.
This layout released by the Las Vegas, Nevada-based Bigelow Aerospace shows the size relations between the firm's various planned inflatable spacecraft. At top is Genesis 2, a near-identical follow on to the Genesis 1 module, that flew in 2007.
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Bigelow Aerospace Aims for an International Market
Credit: Bigelow Aerospace
Hang Time in Earth orbit courtesy of Bigelow Aerospace expandable modules. The company unveiled a business plan to populate space with habitable complexes for international space agencies and multinational corporations.
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Bigelow Aerospace's Space Vision
Credit: Bigelow Aerospace
Bigelow Aerospace has planned a series of inflatable structure tests in space. Plan is to evolve testing and hardware to establish the Nautilus outpost in Earth orbit.
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Building Up Infrastructure
Credit: Bigelow Aerospace
Construction is under way at Bigelow Aerospace in North Las Vegas, a building to crank out expandable habitats.
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Boeing CST-100 Approaching Bigelow Space Station
Credit: Boeing
This artist's illustration depicts a Boeing CST-100 spacecraft approaching a private inflatable space station complex designed by Bigelow Aerospace.
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Commercial Space Stations
Credit: Bigelow Aerospace
Despite being a feat of engineering and research, the International Space Station's days are numbered, with some estimates aiming between 2014 to 2020 for its end of operations. But Bigelow Aerospace of Las Vegas, Nev., hopes to build new inflatable space stations like that shown above for commercial uses ranging from tourism to research and other fields.
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Bigelow Aerospace's Sundancer
Credit: Bigelow Aerospace.
Bigelow Aerospace Sundancer module is designed to be capable of supporting crews in Earth orbit.
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Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM)
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) is seen during a media briefing where NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and President and founder of Bigelow Aerospace Robert T. Bigelow announced that BEAM will join the International Space Station to test expandable space habitat technology, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 at Bigelow Aerospace in Las Vegas.
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Bigelow BEAM Contract
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and President and founder of Bigelow Aerospace Robert T. Bigelow talk while standing next to the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) during a media briefing where is was announced that the BEAM expandable space habitat technology will be tested on the International Space Station, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 in Las Vegas.
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Lori Garver Speaks About Bigelow BEAM Contract
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and President and founder of Bigelow Aerospace Robert T. Bigelow, announce a planned addition to the International Space Station that will use the orbiting laboratory to test expandable space habitat technology during a press conference held at Bigelow Aerospace on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 in Las Vegas.
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Bigelow BEAM Habitat Docked to International Space Station
Credit: Bigelow Aerospace
NASA has awarded a $17.8 million contract to Bigelow Aerospace to provide a Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), which is scheduled to arrive at the space station in 2015 for a two-year technology demonstration. Artist's impression released Jan. 16, 2013.
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Bigelow Aerospace Founder Speaks
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
President and founder of Bigelow Aerospace Robert T. Bigelow, talks during a media briefing where he and NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver discussed their $17.8 million contract to provide a Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) to the International Space Station to test expandable space habitat technology, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 at Bigelow Aerospace in Las Vegas.
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NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver Speaks at Vegas Convention
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver talks during a media briefing where she and President and founder of Bigelow Aerospace Robert T. Bigelow, discussed their $17.8 million contract to provide a Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) to the International Space Station to test expandable space habitat technology, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 at Bigelow Aerospace in Las Vegas.
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Bigelow Media Briefing
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver talks during a media briefing where she and President and founder of Bigelow Aerospace Robert T. Bigelow, discussed their $17.8 million contract to provide a Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) to the International Space Station to test expandable space habitat technology, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 at Bigelow Aerospace in Las Vegas.
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Bigelow Module
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and President and founder of Bigelow Aerospace Robert T. Bigelow talk while standing next to the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) during a media briefing where it is was announced that the BEAM expandable space habitat technology will be tested on the International Space Station, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 in Las Vegas.
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Bigelow Module Additions
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and President and founder of Bigelow Aerospace Robert T. Bigelow, announce a planned addition to the International Space Station that will use the orbiting laboratory to test expandable space habitat technology during a press conference held at Bigelow Aerospace on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 in Las Vegas.
