It's a result of a $ 17.8 million contract the company signed with NASA in 2012 to develop and test expandable habitat technology for potential use in deep space.
Like all the conference attendees, he is buoyed by the privatization of space, seen recently in SpaceX launches, Paul Allen's Stratolaunch Systems, and the two test modules for expandablehabitats that Bigelow Aerospace has placed in orbit.