Genesis II is the second experimental space habitat designed and built by the private American firm Bigelow Aerospace, launched in 2007.

After leaving North Las Vegas, Nevada in the United States, the spacecraft made a stopover in Luxembourg before being flown on an Antonov An-124 to Orsk, Russia, and transported over ground to the Dombarovskiy base.

[6] As with Genesis I, it was launched aboard an ISC Kosmotras Dnepr rocket from Dombarovsky Air Base near Yasny, Orenburg Oblast, Russia.

Due to the mechanics of its orbit, first contact with the craft was established once it passed over SpaceQuest, Ltd.'s Fairfax, Virginia receiving station at 22:20 UTC, confirming that it was functioning nominally with power and air pressure at expected levels.

[3] On 23 April 2009, Bigelow Aerospace announced that Genesis II had surpassed the 10,000 orbit mark, having been in space for 665 days and travelling over 430×10^6 km (270×10^6 mi).

Instead of the single-tank inflation system used on the first prototype craft, Genesis II employed multiple tanks for added reliability and to allow for more finely tuned gas control.

For the science aspect, Genesis II carried an upgraded version of the original life-sciences module, colloquially termed "Life in a Box".

Two projectors and associated cameras were positioned on the tips of solar arrays, and the company had eventual plans for allowing the public to send images and video to be displayed.

As of August 2007[update], there were no firm plans on how this would be handled due to current limits of uplink bandwidth, and was considered merely an experimental "fun" project.