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arisbe ([personal profile] arisbe) wrote2004-08-09 05:37 pm

Not Waiting for Uncle Sam

"From a 50-acre research facility on the outskirts of Las Vegas, the 60-year-old entrepreneur can survey the length of the city's famous Strip, home to some of the biggest hotels in the world.

"Still, Bigelow has his sights set higher -- 250 miles higher, to be exact.

"Through his latest business venture, Bigelow Aerospace, the hotel mogul, who caught the space bug as a boy in the 1950s, has been quietly building the world's first commercial space station."

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