Are you serious, TB?
Bigelow has launched NO man-rated
orbital spacehab yet.
And even if he did within the next five years, there's no guarantee
any astronaut will get a ride there.
Burt Rutan's SS2 is Suborbital, MAYBE it will carry passengers to a 100 km altitude sometime in the next three years, if VG is lucky. (Don't hold your breath!); and being suborbital it
won't go anywhere near the Moon.
SpaceX?
Mr. Musk achieved a remarkable accomplishment last year, I grant him that, but could you tell me when his Dragon will carry astronauts to one of Bigelow's spacehabs? And assuming it happens this decade, does it guarantee that
SpaceX will cram some humans into a Lunar Dragon next decade and send them looping around that orb?
That's assuming it will happen the next decade; a big assumption.
It's just as likely that SpaceX could go bankrupt this decade; and so can Mr. Bigelow.
HEY! Those things do happen!
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- Re: Seven years from this July it will have been half a century since NASA first landed men on the Moon.
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