Space Hotels? Do We Get Flying Cars Too?

Remember a few years ago IBM had a great B2B commercial with Avery Brooks yelling "Where are the flying cars?" Recalling the heyday of the space program when we all thought that by the year 2000 we'd have flying cars, be living on the moon and all sorts of other great stuff.

What do we have? War in the Middle East (pretty much a constant there, been that way since the beginning of time); idiots in Congress; a shaky economy(I don't care what they tell you retails jobs are not true growth) and no one paying much attention to anything let alone the space program.

So anyway, Genesis 1 launched last month. It is an inflatable module design for a crew habitat on the international space station. NASA dropped the project and Bigelow Aerospace picked it up.

The project's backers are hoping that this mission is a first step for a "futuristic space station that could be fully operational within the next decade". There's a web site for Genesis 1 sightings and everything. http://www.bigelowaerospace.com

Pretty cool site. Love the tag line "Getting you excited again about space" Okay so I never stopped being excited but then, I am a geek. A girl geek but a geek all the same. I'm pretty sure that my biggest regret in life is going to be that I never got a chance to go into space, let alone see us actually reach out beyond our solar system with a manned mission.

So hey, we have a habitat in space that could be the forerunner of the first orbiting hotel. Pretty cool. Now if we could just get those flying cars to work....

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