Neil
01-Oct-2010, 10:02 AM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11440701
A Russian company has unveiled an ambitious plan to launch a "cosmic hotel" for wealthy space tourists.
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The hotel should be comfortable inside, and it will be possible to look at the Earth through large portholes”
End Quote Sergei Kostenko Orbital Technologies
Orbital Technologies says its "comfortable" four-room guest house could be in orbit by 2016, Russia's RIA Novosti news agency reports.
Guests would be ferried to the hotel on a Soyuz shuttle of the type used to transport cosmonauts to the International Space Station (ISS).
The Moscow-based firm did not reveal how the hotel would be built or funded.
Up until now space tourists, such as American businessman Dennis Tito, have squeezed into the cramped ISS, alongside astronauts and their experiments.
The new hotel would offer greater comforts, according to Sergei Kostenko, chief executive of Orbital Technologies.
A Russian company has unveiled an ambitious plan to launch a "cosmic hotel" for wealthy space tourists.
Continue reading the main story
“Start Quote
The hotel should be comfortable inside, and it will be possible to look at the Earth through large portholes”
End Quote Sergei Kostenko Orbital Technologies
Orbital Technologies says its "comfortable" four-room guest house could be in orbit by 2016, Russia's RIA Novosti news agency reports.
Guests would be ferried to the hotel on a Soyuz shuttle of the type used to transport cosmonauts to the International Space Station (ISS).
The Moscow-based firm did not reveal how the hotel would be built or funded.
Up until now space tourists, such as American businessman Dennis Tito, have squeezed into the cramped ISS, alongside astronauts and their experiments.
The new hotel would offer greater comforts, according to Sergei Kostenko, chief executive of Orbital Technologies.