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TL 8 Space Hotel

coliver988

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One of those I'll believe when I see it. Per article intro:

"Tourists will soon have a new travel destination as startup Orion Span plans to open a luxury hotel in orbit 200 miles above the Earth in late 2021.
The single-module commercial space station will start accommodating guests in 2022. It will include “private suites for two, the most number of windows ever created for spaceflight, weightlessness, and the world's only authentic astronaut experience.”

A 12-day stay aboard ‘Aurora Station’ will start at $9.5 million. Refundable deposits of $80,000 are already being accepted on the website of the company.

Guests will go through three months of pre-flight training, including an online certification program and in-person training at a facility in Houston. "


https://www.rt.com/business/423518-first-luxury-space-hotel/
 
One of those I'll believe when I see it. Per article intro:

"Tourists will soon have a new travel destination as startup Orion Span plans to open a luxury hotel in orbit 200 miles above the Earth in late 2021.
The single-module commercial space station will start accommodating guests in 2022. It will include “private suites for two, the most number of windows ever created for spaceflight, weightlessness, and the world's only authentic astronaut experience.”

A 12-day stay aboard ‘Aurora Station’ will start at $9.5 million. Refundable deposits of $80,000 are already being accepted on the website of the company.

Guests will go through three months of pre-flight training, including an online certification program and in-person training at a facility in Houston. "


https://www.rt.com/business/423518-first-luxury-space-hotel/

Aside from that is an awfully tight time schedule to get something certified for flight and human habitation, how do they plan to make sure it gets up there? The latest Soyuz launch did not go so well.
 
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