Tuesday, November 3, 2009
My travel antenna just picked this up now - First Space Hotel to be finished in 2012. - "Aspiring space tourists can start packing their suitcase as 2012 is the time planned for the launch of the first orbiting hotel, thanks to a very generous $3billion offered by an anonymous billionaire to back the project."
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from this site: http://www.self-catering-breaks.com/news/41321545.html
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.....Aspiring space tourists can start packing their suitcase as 2012 is the time planned for the launch of the first orbiting hotel, thanks to a very generous $3billion offered by an anonymous billionaire to back the project.
But amateur cosmonauts will need a healthy stash of cash as the Galactic Suite Space Resort since a three-night stay will be a whopping 3 million euros. The hefty does come with some perks, as space vacationers will enjoy a tropical island prior to the voyage for an eight-week training programme.
Even if the cost and time frame of the space hotel appear a little iffy, the 3-day spacation has attracted more than 200 future space tourists and 43 have already booked.
During their space holiday, visitors will travel around the planet every 80 minutes and witness 15 sunrises a day. They will be able to crawl over their hotel room by sticking to the walls just like Spiderman as they will be wearing Velcro bodysuits.
CEO of Galactic Suite Ltd and ex-aerospace engineer Xavier Claramunt claims that the hotel will immediately launch his business at the forefront of budding industry which will have huge future and predicted that space travel will eventually be considered very common.
He said that, very likely in 15 years, people will enjoy weekends in space.
Launched in 2007, Galactic Suite Ltd hopes to commence its space hotel venture using a single pod orbiting the earth 280 miles high, speeding at more that 18,000 miles per hour, and with the potential to carry four guests plus two pilots.
The voyage would start with a 36-hour rocket trip to the pod itself, which Claramunt promised would have the feel of a mountain retreat.
But Galactic Suite is getting some competition in space tourism. The New Mexico based Spaceport America, offers space enthusiasts the world’s first facility specifically designed for space tourists. British billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, his space tours company, will use its launch pad to send visitors into suborbital space for only £120,000 a ride.
Virgin Galactic flights have already got a list of 300 people who have paid or signed up for the space trips.
omg...can't even afford yet to go to Europe on a grand tour..and here they are quoting 3M Euros for this...*sobs*
ReplyDeleteon a bright note...
if in 15 years, something like this is more common...well, I don't have to worry much about my knees not being able to take pressures of walking and climbing :-)
that's ok, space holds no attraction for me. give me old crumbling ruins anytime! =)
ReplyDeletemay crumbling ruins on the moon...
ReplyDeleteyung naiwan na space vehicle nila...hehehe..
If you see 15 sunrises a day, does that mean you will also have 15 buffet breakfast a day in that hotel? : )
ReplyDeleteif that is the case...the tourist may not float anymore in such gravity-free circumstances...hahaha!
ReplyDeleteHehehe. I thought you were going to say, ahh, that's something I want to have. : )
ReplyDeletewell, I might get airspace-sickness...sayang naman lahat ng nilamon ko....*gobble, gobble*
ReplyDeleteMwahaha!
ReplyDeleteOmg, how many hours of sleep in 24hrs..what kind of clock or device will they use to suvive the waking & sleepng time?...or baka maging butiti & siopao na pagbalik dito...hahahaha...make no sense to me..
ReplyDeleteAyos, if Cat will go, she'll be having problem floating,,,hehehe
hehehe...yun..dun yata mawawala na metabolism ko...kain ako ng kain habang nakaharap sa window looking at Earth
ReplyDeleteA little expensive. ;-) Other than that sign me up!
ReplyDeleteyeah, if not for that factor, it would be an experience of a lifetime to do this :-)
ReplyDeletemaybe in 25 years it will be more affordable..and by that time there's a trip to Mars thrown in...