NASA has awarded a $17.8 million contract to Bigelow Aerospace to provide a Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), which is scheduled to arrive at the space station in 2015 for a two-year ...

This animated image shows four ways BEAM may expand in orbit once it has been attached to the International Space Station. This infographic gives facts about the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, ...

NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver announced Wednesday a newly planned addition to the International Space Station that will use the orbiting laboratory to test expandable space habitat technology.

HOUSTON—Bigelow Aerospace’s bedroom-sized, experimental expandable habitat module crossed the midpoint of its planned two-year stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS) over the U.S. Memorial ...

LAS VEGAS, Jan 16 (Reuters) - A low-cost space dwelling that inflates like a balloon in orbit will be tested aboard the International Space Station, opening the door for commercial leases of future ...

Just five months into its two-year demonstration mission on the International Space Station, the first human-rated expandable habitat in low-Earth orbit is already returning valuable information about ...

That's one big bang for space station safety. Sierra Space deliberately blew up its first full-scale space station module prototype recently to get ready for future space missions that could take ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station on Monday floated inside an experimental inflatable module that will test a less expensive and potentially safer ...

The idea sounds like the far-fetched dream of a mad aerospace engineer, but the plan is to make money off the venture and eventually form commercial facilities that could replace the aging ...