There is that. <img src="/images/icons/frown.gif" /> Sometimes somebody lets the good news out before the launch is really over. At least it's not a Volna; I've really lost my faith in those after the various problems it caused for the Cosmos spacecraft. (Loss of the suborbital test article, loss of Cosmos-1, no successful flights, both failures due to booster problems.)<br /><br />Anybody know much about Dnepr? What's it's record like?<br /><br />In any case, I really do hope this has been a successful flight. It would be wonderful to see this technology take off (no pun intended). There have of course been attempts at getting inflatables going in space, but all have either failed to leave the drawing board, or were abandoned after preliminary tests. I hope Bigelow's innate stubbornness makes the difference here. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em> -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>