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Space Hotels a Step Closer

Posted April 16, 2007 10:17 AM

From Discovery News:

A hotel developer sets his sights on orbital accommodations. Robert Bigelow made a fortune developing a hotel chain for the budget-minded. Now he plans to do the same for travelers headed to space. It's not just tourists that Bigelow, founder of Budget Suites hotels, has his eye on. The business plan, unveiled last week at the U.S. Space Foundation's National Space Symposium in Colorado, is actually more geared toward providing lodging in space for astronauts from countries not involved with the International Space Station.

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04/17/2007 4:05 AM

Hmm..., sounds exiting. I wonder how long it will take to get the cost down to the (optimistic?) projection of $30 thousand a month.

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04/17/2007 8:36 AM

hmmm...budget minded travelers heading for space. Sounds like an oxymoron if I ever heard one.
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04/17/2007 10:01 AM

Hmm. For the tourist, the hotel is a means to an end: the base facility that offers the opportunity to spend time at a certain location. For a space hotel the facility has become the destination. So the concept needs re-evaluating.

Four weeks in a tin can in orbit? Stuff that!

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