Space hotel says it's on schedule to open in 2012

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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.

More than 200 people have expressed an interest in traveling to the space hotel and at least 43 people have already reserved.

British tycoon Richard Branson's space tours firm, Virgin Galactic, will use the facility to propel tourists into suborbital space at a cost of $200,000 a ride.

The numbers are similar for Virgin Galactic with 300 people already paid or signed up for the trip but unlike Branson, Galactic Suite say they will use Russian rockets to transport their guests into space from a spaceport to be built on an island in the Caribbean.

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

[katie]

Some people have entirely too much "expendable income"....

[E_]

Let em spend it, maybe it will trickle down... lol

[$parechange]

So, do you want me to sell our tickets?

Some people have entirely too much "expendable income"....

[katie]

They would wear velcro suits so they can crawl around their pod rooms by sticking themselves to the walls like Spiderman.


Well, it would certainly be a waste of Hotel Money, lol you couldn't uh, mess up the room or anything

[FireEscape]

Don't they know the world is going to end in 2012? What a waste of time, Idiots, sheesh.