Bigelow mystery picture

Bigelow Aerospace has posted an unusual image and is challenging visitors to "Make Your Guess" as to how it was taken.

The caption also includes the intriguing statement: "More news on Monday September 3rd".

Note that the Fly Your Stuff gallery has had many more photos added to it recently.

Posted 08/29/07 | 21:59:07 by TopSpacer | Filed under: Space habitats

Comments

Anybody seen Bigelow lately? In person, I mean?

Posted by Paul Grove at 08/29/07 22:58:12

What's the big mystery? They used a fish-eye lens.

Posted by ra at 08/30/07 00:55:33

What is with the fly your crap gallery.
I don't really get the point to this.

Posted by Number2 at 08/30/07 07:17:08

At least the photo is cool but it dose look like a fish-eye lense.

Posted by Ed at 08/30/07 07:18:19

"What is with the fly your crap gallery.
I don't really get the point to this."

Hmm, I don't know, maybe because people paid to have items flown and photographed on the module?

Posted by Jaxx at 08/30/07 08:00:02

Anyone's guess is as good as mine.

But a fish lens is the closest thing I can think of.

Posted by Darnell Clayton at 08/30/07 09:05:10

It looks like a giant trash can in orbit. Are these people going to get anything back.

Posted by Number2 at 08/30/07 09:45:42

I paid to fly an item on Genesis-II and I "got back" just what the company promised, an image of my stuff in orbit. I'm happy with that, and the knowledge that I'm helping in a small way to support private space development.

Posted by Stellvia at 08/30/07 10:46:56

saranrap ?,I thing its a good way to promote the private space industry,endorsing products,items etc I hope NASA provides some technological support,especially in the safety area for these companies.

Posted by thomas lewis at 08/31/07 08:50:11

I hope NASA provides some technological support...

Thomas, NASA does provide technical support to Bigelow, but when I was there, we Bigelow engineers caught mistakes that NASA had made in the design of the TransHab technology. Look, all Bigelow has done so far is provide a payload. Someone else has built and operated the exploding part, the rocket. I hate to break it to you, but NASA has killed more people on the way to, and from space, than anyone else on the planet. They should not be relied upon as the be all, and end all, of of safety. There are many fine engineers and scientists at NASA who have been overuled by "management" (and I use that term loosely) to the detriment of us all. The reality is that NASA, and even many altspace companies, don't really know what they are doing all the time, because most of what they do, has never been done before! Call it research, call it whatever you want, but this is the way technological progress is made, get used to it. People are going to die. So many people die on the freeway they don't even report the numbers anymore. People die in coal mines everyday. We hear about a few because the media is enthralled with global warming fears and is pushing for an end to fossil fuels. Whatever! Nothing is completely safe. Get used to it, that is reality, and it isn't going to magically change overnight. People die slipping and falling on icy sidewalks. Should we ban icy sidewalks? All you can realistically expect, is a process of incremental safety improvment over a long period of time, if you don't have interference in technical issues from PR types who want a flight over a particular national holiday, or want to change some foam formulation for the External Tank based on some dubious ecological concerns. NASA didn't design the Shuttle anyway. Private aerospace contractors at companies like Lockheed, Thiokol, and Rockwell did. The most pernicious nonsense that I have ever heard, is this silly notion that NASA knows what they are doing, at all time. They don't. They never did. Von Braun used to always say, research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing. NASA is not infallible. NASA makes mistakes too. And they will make many more in the future. Hopefully, over time, less and less. That is all we can expect.

Posted by Tony Rusi at 09/01/07 10:05:02

I think it's via a fish eye lens looking though one of the windows on the module.

Posted by Ruri at 09/01/07 16:45:37

You seem to be missing the point- yes, a fish-eye lens has probably been used, but how did they fit the entire earth in the frame without being at a higher than expected orbit (G.E.O??)

Posted by Damian at 09/03/07 04:55:06

Perhaps this is photo of a photo of Earth...

Posted by Thing at 09/03/07 10:03:26

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