"I would imagine Bob Bigelow has a bit better idea who is willing to pay to go to orbit than you or I. "<br /><br />Unfortunately he is not telling us or anyone else what or where the market is that he is targeting. It seems to be some sort of secret market... an odd thing, considering that a market is nothing more than a number of people having an interest in someone else's products or services, which from its very nature should not be secret.<br /><br />"This study did not ask if any universities, electronics manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, foreign governments, foreign affluent people, etc, etc."<br /><br />And that was exactly my question. Which universities, pharma corporations, governmental space agencies are willing to pay 20-30 million for one person going into space, especially if they are not currently willing to pay money for the same research they would be able to do on a Bigelow space station on the ISS?<br /><br />It is not that there can't be a market for the services Bigelow wants to offer (at a very low price there might be a substantial market), I am just wondering why he is not explaining to the public what the market specifically is he is targeting - I mean, that shouldn't be a secret, should it?