The Galactic Suite Space Resort: Hotel Taking Reservations for 2012 Opening
Three-Night Stay Runs $4.4 Million
First, guests will have to attend an eight-week training course in a tropical island. After completion of their course, guests will be transported to space by Russian rockets from a spaceport to be built on the Caribbean island. The trip will take about 1 ½ days.
Ultimately the guests will stay in connecting pods around a central hub and each pod will be able to hold the two astronaut-pilots and four guests. The company hopes to start out with one pod. They will be traveling around the world every 90 minutes and should see the sun rise 15 times a day. Guests will have to wear Velcro suits so they can crawl around their pods.
Some skeptics have questioned whether the hotel has enough money to complete the project and if it would be completed that soon. According to the companies CEO, Xavier Claramunt, an anonymous billionaire has fronted $3 billion to finance the space hotel.
There are several others also planning projects in commercial space tourism. Some have plans for using a space station as a hotel. Robert Bigelow, an American motel tycoon, has designs for the inflatable space habitats from the Transhab program unfinished by NASA. Along with his company, Bigelow Aerospace, he has already launched two inflatable habitat modules.
Excalibur Almaz plans to launch its Almaz space station with the largest windows ever on a spacecraft. And then there's the Space Island Group which hopes to have 20,000 people on their "space island" by 2020 with their Space Island Project.
In New Mexico, construction is underway for Spaceport America, which will be the world's first accommodation for space-bound commercial customers and paying passengers. Richard Branson's space tours company, Virgin Galactic, will use this property to send tourists into space. This ride will cost $200,000, and 300 people have already paid or signed up for the trip. Branson is also hoping to construct a space hotel sometime in his lifetime.
Maybe in a few years we will all be able to vacation in space. Or at least our children may!
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_tourism
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- A three-night stay and eight-week training runs approximately $4.4 million.
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Post a CommentInteresting but I don't think this would be a great vacatiaon crawling around in a velcro suit for 3 days for $4.4 million.