This is just the coolest thing ever. The Galactic Suite is on schedule to be the first hotel in space. In 2012 guests will be able to travel around the world in 80 minutes over three days. And what will this weekend getaway cost? About $4 million, according to the Barcelona-based architects that are planning the venture. That doesn't include the $20 million or so it will cost to get there.
During that time guests would see the sun rise 15 times a day and use Velcro suits to crawl around their pod rooms by sticking themselves to the walls like Spiderman.
Company director Xavier Claramunt says the three-bedroom boutique hotel's joined up 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.
"It's the bathrooms in zero gravity that are the biggest challenge," says Claramunt. "How to accommodate the more intimate activities of the guests is not easy."
But they may have solved the issue of how to take a shower in weightlessness -- the guests will enter a spa room in which bubbles of water will float around.
When guests are not admiring the view from their portholes they will take part in scientific experiments on space travel.
This whole Space Age travel thing is just taking way too long, in our opinion. They need to get cracking on a) creating an artificial gravity generator and b) making the trip faster and less expensive. You know, like transporter technology. We won't be going through Transporter 1.0 though. We'll let the first hundred thousand people go through first, just to make sure the kinks are worked out.
This is just the coolest thing ever. The Galactic Suite is on schedule to be the first hotel in space. In 2012 guests will be able to travel around the world in 80 minutes over three days. And what will this weekend getaway cost? About $4 million, according to the Barcelona-based architects that are planning the venture. That doesn't include the $20 million or so it will cost to get there.
