Space Resort

Space Resorts

Space is the next frontier for mankind. To think that someday soon we could and most likely will have space resorts is a pretty cool idea. "Galactic suite" plans to be the first resort in space, offering a 3-day stay for a measly 4 million dollars. This of course includes astronaut training. "Galactic suite" plans to have Galactic Suite Space Resorts up by 2012. It appears lance bass might get to go to space after all.

The Galactic Suite Project is being designed in Europe, and its construction plan requirements are currently underway. The spaceport will be situated in a tropical island somewhere that is specifically selected to service their spaceships and to monitor the space resort. It will also provide the specific astronaut-training programs. The spaceship will be a space tourism spacecraft designed to carry at least four passengers and two pilot-astronauts into orbit using a double hybrid rocket engine. A Barcelona-based architecture studio, Equip Claramunt, and a team of engineers from Florida have developed the prototype of a new space hotel. Each room of the Galactic Suite is hosted in a capsule. The rooms are 7 meter wide and 4 meters high, they have no angle nor straight lines. Whenever a person would want to eat, sleep or watch the space through the huge windows, guest would "stick" --using velcro or similar systems-- to some protuberances on the sides of the room.

Architect Xavier Claramunt explained that the hotel would be installed with the help of a space shuttle which would carry up to three rooms at a time. Up to 22 capsules in total would be affixed to the central nucleus. So far only models and computer renderings have been created but if all things go as plan we will be in space sooner as opposed to later.