But the size of test centre sites made it difficult to reach the speed without accelerating unsafely, he said.
Bigelow said the NASA brand will enable him to begin selling Kevlar habitats several times the size of the test module.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By mid-2012, Starbucks will test some specialty stores on the West Coast, with the units about the size of its coffee shops.
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.
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