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FLY ME TO THE MOON: SPACE HOTEL SEES 2012 OPENING
“Galactic Suite”, the first hotel planned in space, expects to open for business in 2012 and would allow guests to travel around the world in 80 minutes. Its Barcelona -based architects say the space hotel will be the most expensive in the galaxy, costing $4 million for a three- day stay.
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.” Continue reading
El hotel galáctico diseñado por el equipo del arquitecto catalán Xavier Claramunt y un grupo de ingenieros aeronáutico de Florida parece sacado de una novela de Asimov. Sus habitaciones de siete metros de largo por cuatro de alto se colocarían desde la tierra con transbordadores espaciales. ¿Inversión aproximada? El estudio prefiere callar.
