(SPACE.com) -- The U.S. government has given payload approval to Bigelow Aerospace permitting the entrepreneurial firm to launch its inflatable space module technology. Bigelow Aerospace of North ...

Here's what's coming next. From the luxury space hotels of Axiom Space to the inflatable super habitats of Bigelow Aerospace to future international efforts, these are the places where we could be ...

A month later, the Federal Aviation Administration told Bigelow Aerospace it could land an inflatable habitat on the moon at some future date and have exclusive rights to the land it occupies ...

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 ...

On Tuesday, hotel billionaire Robert Bigelow announced the launch of Bigelow Space Operations. The new company will operate inflatable space stations called B330s, which are being developed by ...

The ISS's BEAM is just the first of the expandable habitats Bigelow hopes to launch into space. The company is also building a larger unit called the BA 330, which will house six astronauts.