NASA recently announced its plan to send BEAM aka the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, into space as early as April 8. It'll be tested on the International Space Station to see if it could be ...

NASA inflated the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module on the International Space Station on May 28, 2016. It's the first inflatable room ever attached to the ISS. Produced by Zach Wasser.

Bigelow Aerospace opened up its ground-based prototype for a space station module — or perhaps even a Mars transport habitat — for inspection today at its ...

The ISS's BEAM is just the first of the expandable habitats Bigelow hopes to launch into space. The company is also building a larger unit called the BA 330, which will house six astronauts.