Bigelow/Lockheed announcement soon?

[docm]

http://nasawatch.com/<br /><br /><blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p><b>More News from Bigelow and Lockheed Martin?</b><br /><br />Editor's note: Industry sources note that an announcement from Bigelow Aerospace and Lockheed Martin is forthcoming - perhaps very soon. The new announcement concerns the on-going work that Lockheed Martin and Bigelow have been doing regarding the launching of human-rated spacecraft aboard Atlas rockets. The initial announcement of this partnership was made at an AIAA meeting in San Jose in September. Stay tuned.<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><br />Original article: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=20886 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[bpfeifer]

Information on the Bigalow website indicated that they were exploring the cost of man rating the Atlas V, and that they were hoping to make a "big announcement" in the upcoming months. I had assumed the "big announcement" would be an accelleration of their testing program jumping from their first subscale demonstrator straight to a full-sized module, but it looks like I was mistaken. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Brian J. Pfeifer http://sabletower.wordpress.com<br /> The Dogsoldier Codex http://www.lulu.com/sabletower<br /> </div>