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Inflatable Space Hotel
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We're moving into pretty exciting times where a brand new Space Race is underway--the race for deep-pocketed space tourists.
Although the Russians have already won the first-tourist-into-outer-space prize, there are other races going on as well. One of the most important is based upon the axiom; where tourists go hotels quickly follow.
Currently, the only accommodation for space traveling tourists in the known solar system is the International Space Station and only the Russians are taking boarders (at $20 million a pop, transport included).
Tapping into this developing marketplace is an understandably expensive ordeal. Or, if you're Multimillionaire Robert Bigelow, just a large chunk of your personal fortune.
According to an article in the LA Times, Bigelow, who built the Budget Suites of America Empire, is currently working on a similar empire in outer space. His unique design is unlike anything you'd find on earth, however.
Bigelow envisions an enormous inflatable hotel made of 16-inch Kevlar walls floating lazily above the earth's atmosphere. In fact, a smaller prototype, launched last July is already circling the globe and undergoing testing. If everything works out, a full size version will launch in five years and paying customers will be dozing away in zero-G in less than ten. The floating hotel will have 3-4 rooms and 12,000 cubic feet of space. A weekend package will run approximately $8 million.
Hey, no one said it's going to be cheap, folks!
Filed under: Hotels and Accommodations
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Janet Sep 3rd 2006 3:48PM
Ima start savin' mah money!!
Brienna Sep 3rd 2006 4:22PM
Only 3-4 rooms? What kind of hotel is that?
I mean I love space and what they're planning is awesome, but they need to think about the rooms if they plan on creating a hotel for people to stay in. C'mon! Hotels on Earth have way more rooms than that!
Jack Sep 5th 2006 1:18PM
Forget the number of rooms... Think of the view!
Patrick Landers Sep 9th 2006 9:16PM
1 module will have 3 or 4 rooms, connect 10 modules & you have 30 to 40 rooms. Cafeteria, Gym, Zero G Badmitton, Pool, if a person can think of it, they will have it.
Patrick Landers Sep 11th 2006 12:06PM
1 module will have 3 or 4 rooms, connect 10 modules & you have
30 to
40 rooms. Cafeteria, Gym, Zero G Badmitton, Pool, if a person can
think of it, they will have it.
Trevor HM Cooper Nov 17th 2006 12:02PM
We are redesigning a Heavy Lift Vehicle HLV so we can reuse 6 of them as a space hotel.
We would like your involvement.
The world is ready for a hotel in space. Who all buy into the hotel will own it as we rent it out to others.