You can book a $4.4 million hotel room in space starting 2012
Finally we have something else to look forward to in 2012 other than the end of the world. Thanks to $3 billion in funding from an anonymous billionaire space enthusiast (any guesses as to who that might be?), the Galactic Suite Space Resort has announced that it will begin offering a three-night stay at its hotel in 2012.
CEO Xavier Claramunt, a former aerospace engineer, says that the project will begin with a single pod in orbit 280 miles above the Earth with the capacity to hold four guests and two astronaut-pilots. If you've got the bucks, you'll be able to travel around the world every 80 minutes and see the sun rise 15 times a day.
And even if you're not yet ready to make a reservation, check out the cool Galactic Suite site to learn all about how to become one of what the company's calling "Homo spaciens."
Life takes us in many strange directions and wonderful discoveries. It never turns out the way we thought it would.
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