Can a Small Start-up Build America's Next Spaceship?

Gump says t/Space will always be â€commercial to our core†and that it will pursue private space-tourism flights as aggressively as it does governmental work. But as NASA struggles under a mandate from President Bush to keep the space shuttles on life support until 2010, complete the half-built International Space Station, and somehow send people back to the moon and then on to Mars at the same time-all without significant additional funding from Congress-it faces a hard road. T/Space just might provide a solution to some of its problems.

Michael Belfiore wrote about the Bigelow space hotel in the March PopSci.