It may vocalize a small Dr. Evil , or just evidently far - fetched , but as of now , the Galactic Suite distance hotel is a go for 2012 . Barcelona - establish designer Xavier Claramunt is promising a three - night halt 300 miles in orbit to anyone with 3 million euros ( $ 4.15 million ) . The package admit shuttle trips to and fro plus an 18 - week training program on a Caribbean island . detail surrounding sure creature comforts and essential are still being press out .
Lest you think Claramunt is just a lone wacko daylight escapist , he has party . He claim to be support by an unknown US firm whose dead on target intent is to colonise Mars , and thinks this would be a step in the right-hand centering . Claramunt is also in talks with other financiers from Japan and the United Arab Emirates .
The 2012 contour will be a three - bedroom “ dress shop hotel ” with seedcase launched from private rocket missions , then joined up in space . Claramunt says that the system is design for modularity and expanding upon “ based on the instinctive increase of a grapevine . ”
Though it is not clear on the button what intergalactic shuttle service Claramunt will be using , his concept artwork depicts a shuttle that may be related to SpaceShipOne , so the likely candidate is Virgin Galactic . You spacecraft rooter may want to confirm that , or bring your own analysis .
Claramunt tell Reuters that while he believes there are 40,000 people on earth able of enjoying his luxury offering , his squad is still interfering solving some problems .
During [ their arrest ] guests would see the sun rise 15 times a day and use Velcro suits to cower around their cod room by sticking themselves to the wall like Spiderman .
Reuters also explains that for showering , “ guests will enter a spa room in which bubbles of water will float around . ”
The final frontier is the toilet .
“ It ’s the bathrooms in zero solemnity that are the biggest challenge , ” says Claramunt . “ How to admit the more intimate activities of the Edgar Albert Guest is not easy . ”
He did not elaborate , but one wonders if he is going to be expect the well - heeled guests how they feel about suction anddrinking their own piss .
The Galactic Suite press outlet enounce the infinite tourists will also take part in scientific experimentation , but again , there is no amplification . I ’m call back Barry White , Hennessy and the correct chapter from Robert Heinlein ’s naughtier sci - fi , and experimentation will just happen , yo .
To make a reservation , ship an e - ring armour to[email protect ] . ( Seriously . )
[ Reuters ]
[ Galactic Suite ]
[ Interview with Claramunt in Spanish ]
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