An artists rendering of a shuttle docking with the Galactic Suite hotel is seen in an undated publicity photo. REUTERS/Galactic Suite/Handout
Posted on 11/02/2009 11:00:14 AM PST by NormsRevenge
BARCELONA (Reuters) – A company behind plans to open the first hotel in space says it is on target to accept its first paying guests in 2012 despite critics questioning the investment and time frame for the multi-billion dollar project.
The Barcelona-based architects of The Galactic Suite Space Resort say it will cost 3 million euro (2.7 million pounds) for a three-night stay at the hotel, with this price including an eight-week training course on a tropical island.
During their stay, guests would see the sun rise 15 times a day and travel around the world every 80 minutes. They would wear velcro suits so they can crawl around their pod rooms by sticking themselves to the walls like Spiderman.
Galactic Suite Ltd's CEO Xavier Claramunt, a former aerospace engineer, said the project will put his company (http://www.galacticsuite.com ) at the forefront of an infant industry with a huge future ahead of it, and forecast space travel will become common in the future.
"It's very normal to think that your children, possibly within 15 years, could spend a weekend in space," he told Reuters Television.
A nascent space tourism industry is beginning to take shape with construction underway in New Mexico of Spaceport America, the world's first facility built specifically for space-bound commercial customers and fee-paying passengers.
British tycoon Richard Branson's space tours firm, Virgin Galactic, will use the facility to propel tourists into suborbital space at a cost of $200,000 (122,000 pounds) a ride.
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An artists rendering of a shuttle docking with the Galactic Suite hotel is seen in an undated publicity photo. REUTERS/Galactic Suite/Handout
I bet they have a long wait list for rooms for December 21st, 2012. :-)
Barcelona?............Is it the Fawlty Towers?................
Wasn't that basically the promise to you and I when we were young?
Well, if it plays out this time, I'm all for it.
Heck, as a pre teen listening to the moonshot and the walk on the moon, I fully anticipated that by now.
Boy, wuz I wrong.
It takes 2-4 days to get over space-sickness, from which about half of space travelers suffer.
$4.5 million to spend 3 days puking....?
Velcro suits..
I hope they have a sauna or pool.
beer or champagne in a bucket would be nice touch too.
If we can fill it up with congress and program the destination...... I can dream.
Yeah, but you have to go outside for a smoke.
i’d like to book 2 rooms for dec 1 through jan 1, 2012 please...
i’d like to book 2 rooms for dec 1 through dec 31, 2012 please...
LOL!
Galactic Suites...We’ll Leave the Docking Lamps On For You!
I like the way they address it as my children, as if. We’re talking grand-children here.
We wuz both wrong bud. It’s almost as if God put his hand on this and caused a ‘Tower of Bable’ effect, a confounding of the major players to the point that nothing happened.
How sad...
Sounds good.
Now we have somewhere for Obama to go on Election Night after he gives his concession speech in disgrace.
Mr. C. K. Watt is the manager................
I will believe this when I see the light in my telescope from the hotel.
Obadiah 1:4 “Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.”
Habakkuk 2:9 “Woe to him who builds his realm by unjust gain to set his nest on high, to escape the clutches of ruin!”
PEEPING TOM!......................
Hahahaa I don’t remember back in the 80s on HBO they used t have short films and one of them was about the end of the world. All the Pols and rich went to the moon and on the given day of the end the moon blew up. LOL Wouldn’t it be funny if the people in the space hotel think they dodged the bullet and BAM it blew up instead of the world.LOL
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