‘Galactic Suite’ Space Hotel Planned for Earth Orbit
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 08.13.07 | 11:56 AM ET
Not just any hotel. A boutique, pod hotel, according to Galactic Suite Limited director Xavier Claramunt. The “pod structure, which makes it look like a model of molecules, was dictated by the fact that each pod room had to fit inside a rocket to be taken into space,” writes Pascale Harter in a Reuters story. Galactic Suite says guests will use Velcro suits that stick to the walls in order to move through the hotel. For the privilege, it plans to charge $4 million for a three-day stay, as well as “eight weeks of intensive training at a James Bond-style space camp on a tropical island,” Harter writes. I’m not quite sure what a James Bond-style space camp might involve (Gadgets? Martinis? Leggy women with punny names?), but I have a feeling the training session could be more fun than spending three days cramped in a pod, wearing a Velcro suit.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
