The world's first privately financed space station could be launched before 2010, a statement by Bigelow Aerospace suggests. The US company is accelerating its schedule to save money.

Based in Las Vegas, Nevada, Bigelow Aerospace has successfully placed two inflatable spacecraft, called Genesis I and Genesis II, in Earth orbit. It wants eventually to launch habitable space stations for use by paying customers such as space tourists.

The company had planned to orbit a third spacecraft called Galaxy in 2008 before lofting its Sundancer space station, able to support a crew of three, into orbit in 2010...

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That's cool. I how much they would charge space tourists for accomodations?

Probably something pretty astronomical, I imagine. The prices, hopefully, will come down over the next 10-20 years.