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More photo fun from the Bigelow Space Station There are a bunch more photos from inside the Genesis 1 space station prototype with all sorts of fun stuff floating about. I would have loved to have been sitting in the meeting where they came up with the idea of flying a container full of Mexican Jumping Beans!
The external shot is also far clearer then the post-launch quick look shot I posted a week or so ago.
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Ah, good, someone else who is calling it with the proper name of “space station”. The NASA fanboy curmudgeons at nasaspaceflight.com and elsewhere were objecting to the idea. It is, in fact, the first private space station.
Its module is 8′ x 14′, certainly big enough for a few people to occupy and live in for longer than a Soyuz. Its of similar living space as the Salyut space stations. It even has inhabitants: the mexican jumping beans (which are inhabited by worms that do the jumping), and a colony of cockroaches. It also has a hatch which, even if it isn’t dockable at the moment, could have one welded on in a future mission if need be.
That’s weirdly wonderful. It reminds me of the boxmaker in William Gibson’s Count Zero.