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Space Hotel Planned for 2016

Russian company Orbital Technologies has announced plans to launch a luxurious "space hotel" into orbit by the year 2016. The four room guest house is planned to orbit along with the International Space Station and will be geared to both wealthy vacationers as well as those looking for a comfortable place to do research in space. The quarters will be cramped (up to seven people in just 706 cubic feet) but amenities like meals whipped up by celebrity chefs and porthole windows for viewing Earth are aimed to make it a comfortable and very unique experience.

No word yet on how much a stay in space will cost and as project financing is still unclear the whole thing might fall through and never be realized. Of course it wouldn't be the first space tourism project to overshoot reality but you never know, this could be the one to make it.

Via Engadget

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Space Hotel To Open In 2012

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

Will space tourism stays be possible in just a couple of years? A Spanish company has said that their Galactic Suite Space Resort orbiting hotel will open in 2012. The company is offering a three-night stay for €3 million. It sounds exorbitant but that price does include an eight-week training course on a tropical island and the travel on a rocket to reach the hotel which will float 280 miles above the earth. The company says that they already have 43 reservations.

The Independent reports that "an anonymous billionaire space enthusiast" has given the company more than €2 billion to finance the hotel. The hotel will rotate the earth 15 times per day offering a trip around the world in just 80 minutes. The modular space habitat willl be built around a central docking platform. Each pod has a window at the base and tourists will be experiencing weightlessness during their stay.

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