HQ Function

The North Las Vegas facility served as the central hub for design, engineering, manufacturing, assembly, and testing of all Bigelow Aerospace expandable habitat modules.

Notable Features:

The facility housed large-scale manufacturing bays to accommodate the unique production needs of inflatable modules, clean rooms, and advanced testing equipment for space-simulation environments.

Work Culture:

Prior to its operational halt, the work culture was characterized by a fast-paced, innovative environment driven by ambitious goals in commercial space exploration. It combined a startup mentality with the rigorous demands of aerospace engineering.

HQ Significance:

This headquarters was the birthplace of all Bigelow's key technologies and modules, including Genesis I, Genesis II, Sundancer (projected), B330 (projected), and the BEAM module currently on the ISS. It represented a unique private-sector effort in space habitat development.

Values Reflected in HQ: The headquarters embodied innovation in aerospace, pioneering spirit, and the pursuit of commercializing space access and habitation.

Location:

While its primary operations were based in the United States, Bigelow Aerospace achieved a significant global presence through the BEAM module, which is attached to the International Space Station (ISS)—a collaborative project involving multiple space agencies worldwide. The company's vision for commercial space stations inherently included serving an international clientele for research, tourism, and sovereign human spaceflight programs. Its technology has global implications for the future of human habitation in space.

Street Address:

1899 West Brooks Avenue

City:

North Las Vegas

State/Province:

Nevada

Country:

USA