First Tourists Book Stay in Space Hotel
Thirty-eight reservations have already been booked to stay at the first space hotel scheduled to be open in three years (2012).
The Galactic Suite hotel, will cost a mere 3 million euros. And exactly what are you getting for a cool 3 million euros? Well, each guest will get 18 weeks of training and 4 days in the hotel.
The Galactic Suite project, which is currently being designed in Europe, consists of three pillars: The spaceport (situated on a tropical island), spaceship (designed to carry four passengers and two pilots) and spaceresort (designed to be a modular structure with a central enclosed area from which the modules will be interconnected).
Passengers will complete 15 orbits around the Earth per day and every 45 minutes will experience watching a sunrise and sunset. And, aside from experiencing weightlessness, the visitors will also have the possibility to enjoy a bath in the state of weightlessness, in the first-ever outer space spa visit. Wow!
This is what the Galactic Suite hotel and space craft will look like.
Each room of the Galactic Suite is hosted in a capsule. The rooms are 7 meter wide and 4 meters high, they have no angle nor straight lines. Whenever they'd want to eat, sleep or watch the space through the huge windows, guest would "stick" --using velcro or similar systems-- to some protuberances on the sides of the room.
