Space hotel says it's on schedule to open in 2012 - Truckers' Trucking Forum

Baack · **^ Top** #1 2 Weeks Ago

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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 ($4.4 million) 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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091102/od_nm/us_hotel

kajidono · **^ Top** #2 2 Weeks Ago

Spend the weekend in space in a giant inflatable clear plastic bubble? Oh gee, sign me up.

Peanut Butter · **^ Top** #3 2 Weeks Ago

Yea no kidding, wear velcro so you can crawl accross your room?? i dont think so, and the price to go?? oh yea take that out of petty cash, i keep that kind of dough laying around the house just in case i can go to space for a vacation lol,, NOT... pretty silly to me.

kajidono · **^ Top** #4 2 Weeks Ago

If you want to go that bad, invest the money in Virgin Galactic and wait a while.

Peanut Butter · **^ Top** #5 2 Weeks Ago

I was being sarcastic lol. and no i dont want to go to space camp.

misterG · **^ Top** #6 2 Weeks Ago

A clear plastic bubble? Didn't know we were paying to learn how to be a gerbil.

kajidono · **^ Top** #7 2 Weeks Ago

Yeah, exactly. It's a giant hamster ball in space. You get caught in that thing, your pride as a man is done, never mind the safety issues.

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