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Outerspacephile Richard Branson Plans a Space Hotel

February 26, 2007 at 9:58 AM | 0 Comments

While we're all gradually accepting that space travel 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 Richard Branson is already planning his hotel out of this world. In his own words, this space hotel:

... 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 into the hotel. We hope that this will happen in my lifetime.

Whether a near-the-moon hotel will also have a spa, sauna, buffet breakfast, WiFi access and all the comforts we expect is not clear, but perhaps the whole "moon skim" thing is supposed to satisfy our quest for adventure.

If Branson's moon hotel is not what you want to save your bucks for, then perhaps his next venture will interest you more: a Balinese-style eco-resort on the island he's just acquired in the British Virgin Islands--Moskito Island. He has, however, decided to change its name to Mojito. Smart man.

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· Race for Space [Times UK]
· Spaceship Hotel, Brazil [HotelChatter]