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.

Bigelow is one of the most promising companies for the NewSpace movement, in my opinion.

With respect to lowering launch costs, Bigelow's plans are very helpful since they help create a market in LEO allowing others to figure out how to build cheaper Earth-to-LEO lift.

Bigelow is awesome! Go Big!

I wish the entire team a great go! on the flight. I did some work for Bob B in 2004 for this flight.

Dennis

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