2020: A Space Station odyssey

Half a century ago it was easy to imagine that a Hilton hotel would soon be orbiting the Earth. The massive floating bagel of a space station in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, a film made at the height of the first space race, seemed a natural stepping stone to interplanetary travel. That 1960s vision never came to pass. But the race to put a commercial space station into orbit could finally be heading for the launch pad, with two US start-ups competing on the latest frontier for private space development. More

(Source: Financial Times - Feb 26)