Hotel mogul Robert Bigelow has made his fortune building his hotel chain here on Earth. But to some, Earth is a road block to the future potential of business. Bigelow, who is also the CEO of Bigelow Aerospace, is asking U.S. government officials to establish lunar property rights on the moon.
Bigelow and his company are currently building vessels he hopes will make it possible for ordinary people to travel and live in space. Getting property rights on the moon is no easy task, which sounds more like a movie than a reality. But it seems the future is here sooner rather than later, and Bigelow is talking to the Federal Aviation Administration Office of Commercial Space Transportation to allow him to stake claims on the moon.
“Our business is providing affordable, reliable habitats, whether they are on the surface of the moon or somewhere in between in low Earth orbit,” Bigelow said. He described the vessels as, “expandable structures that have an element like the steel belts in your tires.”
While space travel could still be years away, Bigelow said his dream of making space travel more accessible is not too far from becoming a reality.
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