coming to you live from the southeast asian capital city of the philippines the land of

seven thousand one hundred and seven islands i'm ard bell and this is coast to coast a m escorting

you through the weekend it is my honor and my privilege to be escorting you through the

weekend and what a weekend it is tonight, particularly so.

My guest, this first hour, we are going to have a guest, is a very old friend of mine now.

We've collaborated on any number of projects over the years, a few, and I knew what he was doing.

I was sort of sworn to secrecy for a long time about Robert's project.

I have compared Robert Bigelow over the years to the older gentleman in the Russian space capsule.

You know the one in contact.

The one who issued the famous line,

want to take a ride.

That's Robert to me.

Anyway, Robert Bigelow graduated from Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in business admin in 1999. In 1999, he founded Bigelow Aerospace.

BA, if you will, is a general contracting investment, research, and development company

that concentrates on achieving economic breakthroughs in the costs, and there are plenty of those

associated with the design, development, and

construction of habitable space stations, space transportation, and launch facilities,

to the extent that they will be affordable for private enterprise use.

Robert Bigelow is active and a member in various business, scientific, and community organizations.

He is a member of the UNLV Foundation and an associate member of the Society for Scientific Exploration.

He has launched a spacecraft.

We'll tell you all about it when we get back.

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