http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T08:40:24Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Chris%20Noth http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/8/31/174334/922 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/spacehotelformice.jpg" class="top"><p> There's always been a lot of talk about <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/space hotels"><b>Space Hotels</b></a> opening in the near future but it looks like <b>mice</b>--yes, mice--have beaten us humans to the Final Frontier. <p> <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32629706/ns/technology_and_science-space/">MSNBC</a> reports that six mice are shacking up in a little "hotel" inside an international space station: <blockquote><p> The small rodents are part of an Italian study investigating the effects of bone loss in space, and researchers have set the mice up in orbital style. "Basically, it's a little hotel," said Joe Delai, Discovery's payload manager, of the cages holding the space mice. "They have a room and a place to eat and sleep." </blockquote></p><p>The mice will stay in their space hotel for three months. juliana 2009-08-31T17:44:36-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/