NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. — At one end of Bigelow Aerospace's factory is a mock-up of a gargantuan home for future astronauts. With a unique design — it could be packed into a rocket, then unfurled in space — it would comfortably house a dozen people as a voluminous space station or serve as a building block of a moon base.
"It'll be a monster spacecraft by any current standards," said Robert T. Bigelow, the company's namesake founder, at a news conference in February.
This is Olympus, named after the mythological home of the Greek gods and a measure of Mr. Bigelow's ambitions for building settlements in space.
Farther down the factory floor is a long, skinny metal structure. This is a developmental version of the spine of a more modest B330 module, which the company actually plans to build. Slight in appearance compared to Olympus, it would still be much less cramped than the
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