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Adam, Brisbane, Queensland — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 07:42:55 GMT

Has anyone else noticed that blow-up habitats are ideal for lava-tubes on the Moon?

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Kraven, Canada — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:14:27 GMT

looking good so far, I hope to see some really nice things in the future.

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Alan Sheets, Loveland, CO — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:15:56 GMT

Anybody know what orbital inclination and altitude this thing was launched into? All the sites I regularly check have "n/a" or "???" listed. Any chance that this unit or future models could rendezvous with ISS or Hubble?

Also, any chance that this technology could be mated with some sort of microwave transmission device, pushed into high orbit, so it can test space-to-ground energy beaming technology?

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Alan Boyle — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:31:04 GMT

The orbital elements can be found at Heavens-Above.com:

The orbit data is extracted from the following two-line orbital elements,

1 29252U 06029A 06198.46964785 .00000204 00000-0 28214-4 0 99
2 29252 064.5117 162.1562 0004679 157.4977 202.6385 15.02722388 739

Epoch (UTC): 11:16:18 AM, Monday, July 17, 2006
Eccentricity: 0.0004679
Inclination: 064.5117°
Perigee Height: 555 km
Apogee Height: 562 km
Right Ascension of Ascending Node: 162.1562°
Argument of Perigee: 157.4977°
Revolutions per Day: 15.02722388
Mean Anomaly at Epoch: 202.6385°
Orbit Number at Epoch: 73

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Frank Glover, Rochester, NY — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:45:36 GMT

I've mentioned Genesis-like inflatables in Lunar caves/lava tubes in another thread here, and it appears that NASA may well be thinking along those lines:

http://www.hobbyspace.com/nucleus/index.php?itemid=1924

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Dennis Costea Jr., Virginia Beach, Virginia — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:03:31 GMT

This is a great event! I lived not more than 5 miles from the Bigelow Aerospace plant in Las Vegas from April 2005 until May 2006 and was excited by their projects.

I hope that these additional views from space and reminders of how truly small our world is will encourage people to begin setting aside the differences of religion and politics and work towards a peaceful future. It often seems like an impossible task, but sometimes it only takes ONE MAN (like Robert Bigelow) with vision, drive and determination to make a difference.

The flight of Starship One and the X Prize competition were just the beginning of many great things, but only if we stop aiming our rockets at each other!

No piece of land is worth the life of my best friend OR my worst enemy.

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don kaylimin — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:43:01 GMT

any blowup astronauts to go with it?