His venture, Bigelow Aerospace , is using technology originally developed by NASA to develop inflatable habitats, each one of which could be shipped into space, blown up to about the size of a three-bedroom house and connected to a structure such as the International Space Station.

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The existing structure, like many in the region, was a hodgepodge, with a three-story house connected to a barn.

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