Where's the outrage?
"American aerospace giants were willing to sell him the valve at costs that ranged from $300,000 to $1 million. Bigelow found and purchased the same valve from a European company. The cost for the identical valve? A mere $5,000."
This explains why it costs several hundred million dollars to launch a shuttle. This isn't price gouging, it's theft. The people in charge of Nasa's accounting department should be drawn and quartered for paying such prices for equipment. The people at the suppliers should just be shot for charging such prices.