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Genesis I is an experimental space habitat designed and built by the private American firm Bigelow Aerospace and launched in 2006. It was the first module to be sent into orbit by the company, and tested various systems, materials and techniques related to determining the viability of long-term inflatable space structures through 2008.
Bigelow Aerospace was an American space design and manufacturing company which ceased operations in 2020. It was an aeronautics and outer space technology company which manufactured and developed expandable space station modules. Bigelow Aerospace was founded by Robert Bigelow in 1998, and was based in North Las Vegas, Nevada.
Bigelow had indicated he planned to spend up to US$500 million to develop the first commercial space station with a goal of the station costing 33% of the US$1.5 billion that NASA expended on a single Space Shuttle mission. [12] [13] Bigelow Aerospace has launched two experimental space modules, Genesis I in 2006 and Genesis II in 2007, and had ...
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Nov. 9—Ector County ISD students, parents, and teachers are eagerly awaiting the launch of the SpaceX CRS-29 rocket carrying a student-designed experiment from the STEM Academy, and mission ...
The TransHab project was canceled by Congress in 2000, [7] [8] [9] and Bigelow Aerospace purchased the rights to the patents developed by NASA to pursue private space station designs. [10] In 2006 and 2007, Bigelow launched two demonstration modules to Earth orbit, Genesis I and Genesis II. [11] [12]
On 23 April 2009, Bigelow Aerospace announced that Genesis II had surpassed the 10,000 orbit mark, having been in space for 665 days and travelling over 430 × 10 ^ 6 km (270 × 10 ^ 6 mi). [11] In February 2011, Bigelow reported that the vehicle had "performed flawlessly in terms of pressure maintenance and thermal control-environmental ...
In 2007, the parameters for Galaxy were again modified, with final specifications being for a spacecraft 4.0 meters (13.1 ft) in length, 3.3 meters (10.8 ft) in diameter and with 16.7 cubic meters (589.8 cu ft) of interior volume—45% greater than the Genesis modules. It was intended for launch in late 2008. [1] [4]