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Galactic Suite Plans Space Hotels By 2012

Posted by on Aug 11, 2007 in Blog, Europe, Space Stations, Space Tourism, Spain | 7 comments


Galactic Suite, a space firm located in Barcelona, Spain, is planning on creating space hotels by 2012, and populating these structures with space tourists from below.

(MSNBC) Galactic Suite’s Barcelona-based architects say guests would pay $4 million each for a three-day stay aboard the orbital equivalent of a three-bedroom boutique hotel.

Before the flight, guests would get eight weeks of intensive training at a space camp on a tropical island, company director Xavier Claramunt told Reuters. Then the tourists would ride an private shuttle into orbit. Hotel 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. [...]

Claramunt, a former aerospace engineer, said the Galactic Suite concept began as a hobby. He told Reuters that a space enthusiast agreed to provide most of the $3 billion needed to build the hotel — but he declined to name the backer.

In order to help realize their vision, Galactic Suite has forged partnerships (or at least gained support) with several other space firms such as 4 Frontiers, Global Business Technologies and the Aerospace Research and Technology Centre.

They intend upon creating a “chain” of orbiting space hotels circling our planet, and it seems as if they have partnered with ADD+Xavier Claramunt to help construct their “molecule-look alike” space stations.

Europe’s entrance into the field is welcome, although they may have to play catch up to Bigelow Aerospace which has successfully launched two space stations in orbit.

Note: Galactic Suite has also launched several weblogs to compliment their young company, although their main one appears to be Galactic Suite News.

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  • http://www.hotelcarhire.net Will Barton

    If we keep ruining planet earth then you Blog comments will probably come true, maybe we will be searching for discount hotes on Mars!

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    Another good place to park a space hotel would be at a very stable Lagrange point. As you know Lagrange points are those areas of gravity equilibrium between two celestial bodies. Not all Lagrange points are stable but many of them are, and it makes sense that this would be the perfect place for a hotel. Indeed, a space hotel would also be spinning to provide the resemblance of gravity perhaps.

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    I walk up the stairs to the second floor and when I am on the second floor to say a man sitting behind a table cell.

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    Wow,That’s a great news. Am totally impressed by this article .Its really a great that Galactic Suite,  Spain, is planning on creating space hotels .I would love to visit that place.

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  • http://ofertasresumidas.com.br/compras-coletivas/peixe-urbano Peixe Urbano

    Now we are in 2011 and no way they will finish this. 5 years semm so much sometimes but it passes really fast if you have to count on avoluition. But anyway, great idea to sleep in space….