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But the size of test centre sites made it difficult to reach the speed without accelerating unsafely, he said.
BBC: New motorbike test is under fire
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Bigelow said the NASA brand will enable him to begin selling Kevlar habitats several times the size of the test module.
NPR: Space Station To Get $18 Million Balloon-Like Room
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The Environment Agency has previously conducted a test measuring the size of wood chip particles in the air, which came back well within the UK limit.
BBC: Wood dust protesters march from Mossley to Plevin plant
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Lower start-up costs and less strict worker protection make it easier for innovative entrepreneurs in America to experiment on a small scale (hence the smaller size of new firms), to test the markets and to expand.
ECONOMIST: Economics focus
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So the size of the package is -- meets that test.
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing
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So far, the company has built a one-eighth-size prototype to test its design, which consists of a carbon-fibre keel, an envelope made from modern composite materials, half-a-dozen engines, a passenger compartment, and a specially lightened crane.
ECONOMIST: Pushing the envelope
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The Air Force Flight Test Center Museum features a full size replica of Yeager's plane (the real one hangs in the Smithsonian) and actual aircraft that made the region famous.
CNN: Where planes go to die
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Goldman has gone back to Facebook several times to test the company's interest in expanding the size of the sale, according to a person close to the matter, though the tone of the requests was informal.
WSJ: Goldman Flooded With Facebook Orders
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On Thursday, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a nonprofit financed by the insurance industry, released its 2012 list of vehicles with the best crash test ratings, and some in nearly every size category evaluated earned accolades.
FORBES: Top Safety Vehicles for 2012
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By mid-2012, Starbucks will test some specialty stores on the West Coast, with the units about the size of its coffee shops.
FORBES: Can Starbucks Do For Juice What It Did For Coffee?
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Symyx has developed a machine as big as a walk-in closet that can mix thimble-size quantities of chemicals and metals in parallel, in up to 1, 000 combinations per day, to test and create new materials.
FORBES: Upstart Symyx is shaking up the stodgy chemicals industry.