Spainish Company plans Space Hotel for 2012
Galactic Suites is a $3 billion project from the Spanish company of the same name that intends to charge tourists $4 million dollars each for a 3 day stay in a 3 bedroom 'boutique' hotel. Guests will don velcro suits to help them crawl around the zero gravity environment by sticking to the walls. So far they have received backing from 4FrontiersCorp, in Florida; CTAE, a Barcelona based aerospace center; and an unnamed 'Space enthusiast.
The Galactic Suites artist conception looks very much like the Bigelow Aerospace Hotel design, in that the hotel is created from a number of pods.
One of the pictures attached to the article shows about 9 pods attached to a central core. This would mean that there would be about 18 guests aboard the hotel at one time -- as well as 18 guests launched into space at one time. I think that the image below showing 3 pods attached to a single core is probably more reasonable, meaning that up to 6 guests and associated crew would be launched into space at one time.










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