Bigelow Aerospace to Study Moon Base in Deal With NASA

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1. I-Team: NASA, NLV Aerospace Co. to Explore Space Together

http://www.8newsnow.com/story/22411490/i-team-nasa-nlv-aerospace-company-sign-agreement

I-Team: NASA, NLV Aerospace Co. to Explore Space Together

Posted: May 23, 2013 4:40 PM PDT
Updated: May 23, 2013 6:17 PM PDT

By George Knapp, Chief Investigative Reporter - bio | email
By Matt Adams, Chief Photojournalist - email

(TV news video)

LAS VEGAS -- A North Las Vegas aerospace company is preparing to boldly go where few have gone before -- a public-private partnership with NASA that could be the start of the next space race.

Nevada's Bigelow Aerospace Co. made a joint announcement with NASA Thursday morning in Washington, D.C., that puts the North Las Vegas company in the pilot seat for the exploration and commercial development of the moon, Mars and beyond.

When the I-Team broke the news in late March that Bigelow Aerospace had signed an agreement with NASA to become, in essence, the general contractor for the commercial development of space, there was considerable skepticism within the national aerospace press corps, who figured it couldn't be true because they would have known about it.

Well, it is true, and on Thursday, NASA admitted as much. The agreement is as wide open as space itself and it puts Bigelow right in the middle of exciting scenarios worthy of Star Trek.

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