FYI,

"Bigelow/Rocketplane Agreement"
Personal Spaceflight
http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/03/23/bigelowrocketplane-
agreement

: At the Space Access `07 conference this morning, George French III
: of Rocketplane Inc. announced that the company has signed a letter
: of intent with Bigelow Aerospace regarding transportation to
: Bigelow's orbital habitats. French provided only a few details
: about the agreement, which basically states that once Rocketplane's
: K-1 is ready to carry passengers, and once Bigelow's modules are in
: orbit, they'll do business to ferry passengers to and from the
: facilities. Rocketplane officials didn't want to disclose too many
: additional details since this announcement since this announcement
: is really a prelude to Robert Bigelow's planned big announcement
: next month at the National Space Symposium about his overall
: business plan, but Rocketplane wanted to get a bit of the news out
: for the Space Access audience.

: There was not much else new about the company in its conference
: presentation. One minor change is that they now refer to the former
: Rocketplane Ltd. part of the company, the one developing the XP
: spaceplane, as "Rocketplane Global", while the K-1 development is
: the responsibility of Rocketplane Kistler (the former Kistler
: Aerospace); the overall company is simply Rocketplane Inc.
: The "Global" part in the name is designed to reflect the company's
: long-term plans to set up XP operations outside the US, such as
: Japan, and eventually move into the point-to-point transportation
: market.

Mark Reiff