Privately-built space station prototype successfully launched into space

space.com — Thursday from a Russian missile base, kicking off the second test flight for the U.S. firm Bigelow Aerospace. Genesis 2, an inflatable module laden with cameras, personal items and a Space Bingo game, rocketed spaceward atop a Dnepr booster from a silo at Yasny Launch Base, an active Russian strategic missile base in the country's Orenburg region. Jun 28, 2007 View in Crawl 4