There may be one tomorrow, with a successful launch. We need to be developing cost-effective hardware for orbital facilities, and this could go a long way toward that end.

As Jim Oberg points out in Alan’s article (and a concern I’ve long had), Bigelow has always been too passive with respect to helping get launch costs down (though the recent Bigelow Prize will be helpful). It’s too bad that SpaceX couldn’t do the launch for him. Maybe next time.