Stellar view? Space hotels race to offer tourists a room in the sky

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TBILISI, Georgia - Tired of your ordinary earthly vacations? Some day soon you might be able to board a rocket and get a room with a view - of the whole planet - from a hotel in space.

At least, that is the sales pitch of several companies racing to become the first to host guests in orbit on purpose-built space stations.

But the growing movement has raised questions about the adequacy of current space laws, which mainly deal with exploration and keeping space free of weapons, not hotels and holidaymakers. "We haven't seen this kind of excitement about space since the Apollo era," Bunger told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone.

The group aims to complete the station, named after Wernher von Braun, the former Nazi rocket scientist who later worked on the US Apollo program, by 2028. "It will take an increase in competition between launchers and a jump in technology to significantly lower costs," said Berthoud. Authorizing governments would also have to continuously supervise each space station's activities, she said.

Source: Holiday News (holidaynews.net)

 

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