Aug 17 2007Galactic Suites Space Hotel

Galactic Suites, the first space hotel, is scheduled to open in 2012, a scant 5 years from now. For the low, low price of $4 million you get an unbelievable 3 night stay in outer space.
During that time guests would see the sun rise 15 times a day and use Velcro suits to crawl around their pod rooms by sticking themselves to the walls like Spiderman.
Throw in one of those Las Vegas style directories of intergalactic three-hootered space hookers, and you can count this guy in (and $3,999,984.25 short on payment). Why's it got to be about them making money, why can't it be about me makin' space love?
One more of a proposed suite after the jump.

Galactic Suites Space Hotel [technovelgy]
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Reader Comments
1. Sanjuro - August 17, 2007 3:47 PM
Finally, I can realize my dream to live in a tie fighter.
2. pork musket - August 17, 2007 3:48 PM
whatever. I'll just take lots of drugs, it's way cheaper
3. T G Geko - August 17, 2007 3:50 PM
too bad that the world will end that year.
4. TQ - August 17, 2007 4:02 PM
This is one hotel room I'd love to steal the towels from.
5. Kevin - August 17, 2007 5:04 PM
Wow, how much does the minibar cost?
6. Pastor Al - August 17, 2007 5:55 PM
4 Million bucks and they give you VELCRO???
7. blpressure - August 17, 2007 6:07 PM
"too bad that the world will end that year." I know, I feel for the poor bastards who pay $4 million to see the planet destroyed and realise they're going to die too when the air runs out in their pod.
8. Pedro - August 17, 2007 6:13 PM
As soon as the super rich pay for enough stays then they could build more and the room prices will start to go down. Hmm...sounds interesting.
9. supercheese - August 17, 2007 10:43 PM
wouldn't it be boring staying in there doing nothing
10. boxedj - August 17, 2007 11:31 PM
not if you bring your ds
11. puppetman - August 18, 2007 1:14 AM
Imagine having sex up there :D
12. RandomNigel - August 18, 2007 2:00 AM
What the hell do you do up there for 3 days straight? Swim in their zero-gravity pool?
13. No - August 18, 2007 2:45 AM
You poop in the air and chase it around.
14. ~zeus~ - August 18, 2007 8:09 AM
Trading a kidney for a zero-G toilet!
15. LeonIncogntio - August 18, 2007 8:55 AM
What would a job there be like, and how do you think it pays?
16. blpressure - August 18, 2007 11:05 AM
puppetman, I waste enough time imagining sex on earth. If I thought about space sex too I'd never leave the house.
17. joflo - August 18, 2007 1:16 PM
come on... 5 years from now? really? they barely even have space tourism going.
18. meppers - August 18, 2007 3:06 PM
yeah, people make accidental space babies that are deformed since they were made is space.
nice.
19. egohavoc - August 18, 2007 4:40 PM
18, do you think that's possible? What would be a side effect from that? (I'm not trying to be sarcastic)
20. egohavoc - August 18, 2007 4:41 PM
PS:
How do you get room service up there?
21. Twinkle - August 18, 2007 10:56 PM
do they serve zero g pizza??
22. Lily - August 19, 2007 11:50 AM
I think after I saw the sun rise 15 times the first day I'd get bored.
23. avenger48 - August 19, 2007 2:24 PM
@21:
Yes, but it takes awhile for them to deliver it.
24. nominus - August 19, 2007 5:59 PM
I sure hope they have a way to disinfect these rooms, cuz when I'm done with em, there'll be too much spooge on the velcro, not to mention the windows.
25. Jubtastic1 - August 19, 2007 7:55 PM
If any millionaires are reading this, for the bargain price of just $2,000,000 I'll lock you in a futuristic looking shed for a week with a video of the Earth projected out the window on loop. Visit www.space.con for all the exciting details.
26. SmackSmash - August 19, 2007 8:37 PM
What about taking loads of drugs in space? I bet acid would be sweet up there...
...and I doubt they have customs...
27. puppetman - August 20, 2007 12:23 AM
Deformed babies? it would make a good punching bag.
28. Dondon - August 20, 2007 2:18 AM
the mint on your pillow is made out of space cheese.
29. Suck My Comment - August 20, 2007 4:36 AM
@ 3 AND 7
30. Suck My Comment - August 20, 2007 4:51 AM
@ 3 AND 7
the whole " world ends 2012 thing" was supposedly predicted by the mayans, but they didnt actually PREDICT it, the Mayan calander just ends that year (sometime decmber, not sure) and everything in their beleifs and culture and ideology "loops" kinda like the idea of re-encarnation. whether this means an "afterlife" or a repeat of the world or the destruction of the world, nobody knows. we might have known if the damn spanish hadn't taken all their writings and burnt them. interestingly, the writings that did survive included predictions, most of them were right. even the prediction of their own empires downfall, was correct even to the point of descriptions of the spanish leaders that killed them all. also sex would be cool up there and u would get bored after 3 days of nothin but continuous sunrises.
31. NekoNeko - August 20, 2007 5:23 AM
@Suck My Comment
That is what I find so creepy about the whole 2012 thing. I've told my friends that I plan on having a really good time in 2011, just in case the world does end.
This would be cool, but could you imagine the kids going "are we there yet?" for this trip?
32. Andee - August 21, 2007 1:53 AM
Pfffffft. I'll just get them to hire me as a maid and then they'll be paying ME to stay in a space hotel.
33. Puhleaaase - August 21, 2007 8:36 AM
Seriously, and when a ceramic tile gets dinged on launch, will it be Steve Jobs or Richard Branson that has to do the space walk to go fix it? (My money's on Branson) My point is that space travel is still sooo flakey that the idea of commercializing it (while cool in an unbelievably disgusting display of luxury/greed kind of way) is simply not feasible. For 4 mil, you could have a supermodel give you head while racing a formula 1 against Mario Andretti... with Wayne Gretski riding shotty. Are there really that many people with that much money to burn?
34. Bmud - August 21, 2007 9:58 AM
But one night in space is only 90 minutes! That's 4 million for only four and a half hours which isn't enough time to watch all the (original) star wars movies or do anything really.
35. Matt - August 26, 2007 1:52 AM
I think it is every mans dream to make sweet space love.
36. sir dennie - August 26, 2007 11:12 AM
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37. sir dennie - August 26, 2007 11:14 AM
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will u let me bang u
38. anurag singh - September 8, 2007 9:02 AM
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39. Lynda Chisholm - September 22, 2007 1:07 PM
dont think it will be boaring . im designing a chilout room for my interior design class at college when the pods get designed there will be plenty to do.