{"id":502,"date":"2009-11-08T05:19:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/?p=502"},"modified":"2009-11-08T05:19:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:19:18","slug":"galactic-suite-%e2%80%9con-schedule%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-flight\/galactic-suite-%e2%80%9con-schedule%e2%80%9d.php","title":{"rendered":"Galactic Suite \u201con schedule\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The little-known Spanish company Galactic Suite, which has previously made bold pronouncements about developing a &#8220;space hotel&#8221; as soon as 2012, <a href=\"http:\/\/ibnlive.in.com\/news\/first-hotel-in-space-on-schedule-to-open-in-2012\/104327-26.html\">tells Reuters they&#8217;re on schedule to accept their first guests in 2012<\/a>.  For the bargain rate of $4.5 million, guests will be able to spend three nights in their &#8220;pod&#8221; in low Earth orbit (if that price includes transportation there and back, it would be a great bargain compared to the estimated $35 million for a week or so on the ISS.)  How they&#8217;ll get there isn&#8217;t clear, other than that they&#8217;ll use &#8220;Russian rockets&#8221;.  Given the demands on Soyuz for ISS missions, that would seem to be ruled out; the only potential alternative would be to partner with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Excalibur_Almaz\">Excalibur Almaz<\/a>  (whose web site is currently down, hence the Wikipedia link), which is planning crewed flights starting in around 2013.<\/p>\n<p>However, there&#8217;s precious little evidence that the company is actually on track in any realistic way for a 2012 launch.  The company has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galacticsuite.com\/\">flashy web site<\/a> (figuratively and literally), but it&#8217;s tough to find updated information: the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.galacticsuiteprocess.com\/\">news section<\/a> is largely in Spanish, and appears to focus as much as plans to compete for the Google Lunar X Prize as for its hotel.  (They have a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.galacticsuiteprocess.com\/\">blog<\/a> as well, but, curiously, it requires a login.)  When I&#8217;ve tried contacting them in the past I&#8217;ve never gotten a response.  So if they really are three years from flying space tourists to their orbital station, they need to do a better job of demonstrating that they have the funding, technology, and various other arrangements needed for that to happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The little-known Spanish company Galactic Suite, which has previously made bold pronouncements about developing a &#8220;space hotel&#8221; as soon as 2012, tells Reuters they&#8217;re on schedule to accept their first guests in 2012. For the bargain rate of $4.5 million, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-flight\/galactic-suite-%e2%80%9con-schedule%e2%80%9d.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-flight"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}