While Bigelow Aerospace’s expandable module, BEAM, continues to perform above all expectations while attached to the International Space Station (ISS), the company has larger ambitions for its ...

Robert T. Bigelow has developed the inflatable Bigelow Expanded Activity Module, an aluminum habitation, to test in space. Pictured is a one-third scale model. Late this year or early next, NASA ...

The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) is a tentlike structure that fits inside a rocket nose cone, then expands to 565 cubic feet, about the size of a minivan. After it berths with the ...