[TeMPOraL]

That's a good point. This talk sends a pretty clear message to the market - we expect to be flying serious amounts of stuff to Mars in under 10 years, so if you want to start a business in the area, now is a good time.

And the trick is, the more people he can convince of that, the better chances we have the Mars colony will happen.

[nicktelford]

It's worth remembering too that Bigelow Aerospace put their development on hold some years ago because the launch industry wasn't moving fast enough to actually deploy their habitats.

I expect we'll see them spinning back up on the immediate future. :)