{"id":31976,"date":"2016-11-16T21:46:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T05:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/private-space-stations-could-start-launching-in-2020-and-large-multi-module-stations-able-to-hold-100-or-more-people-by-2030"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:19:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:19:40","slug":"private-space-stations-could-start-launching-in-2020-and-large-multi-module-stations-able-to-hold-100-or-more-people-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/private-space-stations-could-start-launching-in-2020-and-large-multi-module-stations-able-to-hold-100-or-more-people-by-2030","title":{"rendered":"Private Space Stations could start launching in 2020 and large multi-module stations able to hold 100 or more people by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/private-space-stations-could-start-launching-in-2020-and-large-multi-module-stations-able-to-hold-100-or-more-people-by-2030.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/34377-private-space-stations-may-take-flight-in-2020.html\" target=\"blank\">Bigelow Aerospace and Axiom Space \u2014 plan to launch habitat modules to orbit in 2020, with the aim of making some money off Earth.<\/a> If all goes according to plan, private space stations will eventually form the backbone of commercial facilities that replace the International Space Station (ISS), which is currently funded through 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully, if we\u2019re successful in the private-sector community, NASA\u2019s going to save a boatload of money, on multiple locations [in orbit] \u2014 not just one \u2014 with more volume than they\u2019ve ever had before,\u201d Bigelow founder and CEO Robert Bigelow said here Wednesday (Oct. 12) at the 2016 International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS). \u201cSo, whether it\u2019s Axiom or us or other people, that is the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacenews.com\/former-nasa-iss-manger-planning-commercial-space-station-venture\/#sthash.xDzD0aYz.dpuf\" target=\"blank\">A new company, named Axiom Space LLC, was incorporated in January, 2016 in Delaware but is based in Houston. Mike Suffredini<\/a> (former NASA manager of the International Space Station) serves as its president and Kam Ghaffarian, the president and chief executive of SGT, is the chief executive.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/11\/private-space-stations-could-start.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot\/advancednano+(nextbigfuture\">http:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/11\/private-space-stations-...tbigfuture<\/a>)  --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bigelow Aerospace and Axiom Space \u2014 plan to launch habitat modules to orbit in 2020, with the aim of making some money off Earth. If all goes according to plan, private space stations will eventually form the backbone of commercial facilities that replace the International Space Station (ISS), which is currently funded through 2024. \u201cHopefully, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49586,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31976\/revisions\/49586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}