http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-24T14:20:54Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Space%20Hotels http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/11/5/10142/9937 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/galacticsuites.jpg" class="top"><p> We linked to the news that the very first Space Hotel would open in 2012 in our <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/11/2/13458/3757/hotels/Don_t_Worry_Your_Bliss_Toiletries_Are_Still_Safe">hotel news briefs</a> on Monday. That's because we didn't think something so far-fetched really merited an entire post but today we thought we'd put our thoughts out there on the <a href="http://www.galacticsuite.com/"><b>Galactic Suite Space Resort</b></a>. <p>For starters, <b>it's not going to open in 2012.</b> Does anyone not remember Lance Bass' dream to go to outer space? Look how well that turned out. And most ambitious hotel plans never make their opening date so we're gonna go ahead and say that outer space probably has some unique factors that could contribute to a <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/hotel delays">delay.</a><p>Second, let's talk about price. juliana 2009-11-05T10:23:42-05:00 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 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/11/14/93455/223 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3930/bigelow.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>It's looking more likely all the time that <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/tag/Space%20Travel">space tourism</a> will be led by private industry, not slow-moving NASA. So who better to get the infrastructure going than a hotel man? <p>The November issue of <i>Wired</i> magazine has an feature story on Robert Bigelow, billionaire founder of the <a href="http://www.budgetsuites.com/"><b>Budget Suites</b></a> hotel chain. Turns out he is a bit of a space nut, living in Nevada and owning a chunk of land where UFOs have been sighted. He has been pouring his fortune into <a href="http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/">Bigelow Aerospace</a>, a company that is setting up innovative space stations that inflate in orbit instead of having to launch in pieces. <p>You won't find the story online, unfortunately. Despite the magazine's Tim L. 2007-11-14T13:30:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/2/26/44638/0026 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.jaunted.com/files/admin/bransonspacesuit.png" class="imgborder"/><p><p>While we're all gradually accepting that <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/tag/Space%20Travel">space travel</a> is an inevitable part of the tourist world, somehow the idea of a space hotel hasn't quite got us convinced. But billionaire and CEO of Virgin Airlines <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/tag/Richard%20Branson">Richard Branson</a> is already planning his hotel out of this world. In his own words, this space hotel:</p><blockquote><p>... will go round the Moon -- it's easier to build one that is not actually on the Moon's surface. We believe we can programme a two-man spaceship, with a bubble on the top, so we can send you off from the hotel, programme you to be a few hundred feet above the Moon, and you will skim the Moon's surface before going back amandak 2007-02-26T09:58:10-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/