Talk:Robert Bigelow

2005 Article
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2005-03/five-billion-star-hotel

Infers he grew up in Las Vegas. "Bigelow was just 15 years old when he vowed to devote his life to helping establish a permanent human presence in space. It would take money, he knew—lots of it. And so he began to build a very practical foundation for his fantastic idea: He followed his father into real estate, studying that and banking at Arizona State University. After graduating in 1967, he launched his career first as a broker, and soon began buying small rental properties. His first construction project, in 1970, was a 40-unit apartment house. Throughout the 1970s and ’80s he built dozens of apartment buildings and motels in and around Las Vegas, and in 1988 he founded Budget Suites of America.

At about the same time, he began pouring millions of dollars into UFO and paranormal research, eventually creating his National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) in 1995. None of this activity was a secret, but he did keep mum about his ultimate goal, the driving motivation behind his expanding empire—telling no one until the time came to set the plan in motion. “I didn’t even tell my wife,” he says. “She never knew. Because it’s possible that that kind of dream would never happen.” The ideal moment arrived in 1999 when Bigelow, now sitting on a fortune, got wind of a NASA program for a radical new space station." He doesn't like "intangibles".

--Craigboy (talk) 23:44, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

2006 Interview with Bigelow
I just learned there is a one-hour first-person interview by Art Bell with Robert Bigelow that was made in 2006 following the successful launch of the Genesis I spacecraft. I have listened to it and found it filled in a number of holes with respect to what I know about Bigelow and about Bigelow Aerospace. The interview is available in four-parts on YouTube: here (part 1), here (part 2), here (part 3), and (part 4) here. Perhaps the links could be added to the external links section of the article; I'm not sure. N2e (talk) 15:05, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

2007 Interview with Bigelow
Just found another first-person interview with Robert Bigelow, much shorter but more recent. This one is by Space.com, Space News editor Lon Rains. Link is here: Robert Bigelow: Lessons, Visions, Realities..., four minute duration. This one is definitely appropriate for sourcing within the article itself, should some editor have the time and inclination to do so. Notably, this includes Bigelow's claim that his entrepreneurial endeavor at Bigelow Aerospace is about being a "space wholesaler", and that is the role he sees being filled by the Genesis module and the BA330s he intends to place into Low Earth orbit. Bigelow clearly does not think it correct to merely call, as some media have, his modules a "space hotel," although that will clearly be one potential use of the orbital craft. Not sure how Wikipedia should or should not make use of that clear assertion from citable media. Do other editors have an opinion?N2e (talk) 01:08, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

And here is yet another slice of that same interview, also apparently from the same conference setting as above, in 2007: Robert Bigelow:  Who owns the next five decades in space?, Space.com Space News, about seven minutes duration. Quite interesting. N2e (talk) 01:08, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

NYT article
Article in the New York Times that might help the "no third party sources" thing: Entrepeneurs Enter Commercial Space Race 129.6.122.41 (talk) 13:27, 9 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for that, when I get around to rewriting the article, I'll be sure to include it. — Huntster (t @ c) 23:44, 9 June 2010 (UTC)


 * And here's an article in the Space Review: .  Cheers. N2e (talk) 15:03, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Missing information
Needs more biographical information to be considered a viable biography. Suggests removal of marketing material if not supplied. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.188.222.204 (talk) 16:31, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

Needs linking to the National Institute for Discovery Science article. 79.168.11.181 (talk) 02:07, 13 June 2012 (UTC)