For this week’s issue of The Space Review, I wrote an extended article about Bigelow Aerospace based on Robert Bigelow’s speech at the NewSpace 2006 conference Friday, a media tour of the Bigelow Aerospace factory in North Las Vegas the previous day, and the interview I had with Bigelow last week as well. The intent of the article was to provide a comprehensive overview of many of the items I mentioned in my notes from the interview last week, going into more detail where possible.

Also, I have gallery of images from Thursday’s tour, including both larger versions of images I previously posted as well as some new ones.

He may be, so long as you believe the British press. According to the brief report, Prince Harry has discussed fly on Virgin Galactic with Richard Branson’s son, Sam, who is a close friend of Harry’s older brother, Prince William. A Virgin Galactic spokesman quoted in the report would only say that the company is “hopeful he will accept our invitation.” We’ll see.