As you can see from our cover story this month we have turned our eyes sky-wards.Whilst dreamily contemplating what it must be like to experience space flight I was reminded of the work of Bob Bigelow. Bob is very much the everyman of space travel and wants to make space more accessible - sounds good. And he wants to do that with an inflatable space station - right Initially I was guilty of thinking that this is a hugely misguided concept Based largely on the fact that over the past week I have witnessed my one year-old daughter single headedly trying to wipe out the balloon reserves of southern England, I assumed that an inflatable space station would be given short shrift by the rigours of space flight
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