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It started the construction of the first space hotel

Las Vegas, USA - It is a project of a US billionaire Robert Bigalow

Yesterday in Las Vegas, Nevada, it was announced the launch, through a Russian rocket took off from the Urals, of the first pneumatic shuttle Genesis I. So it is becoming reality the dream of US billionaire Robert Bigelow, owner of an hotel shack, to build the first space hotel. The dimension of Genesis I are 5 metres by one metre, but when it is inflated it doubles its dimension. In Bigelow’s projects t...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 144730
Rome, Italy, 07/13/2006 13:36
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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