Orbiting Space Hotel is Now Accepting Reservations

By Dr. Phil
Published Aug 15, 2007

Have you ever showered in bubbles? Seen the Sunrise 15 times in one day? Probably not, but then again you haven't been in a space hotel recently.

Yet if you have $4 million and eight weeks to train, a new company called Galactic Suite Limited can send you to the first orbiting space hotel.

What started as a hobby for a Spanish architect named Xavier Claramunt is about to become a reality, thanks to well executed management and perseverance ... plus $3 billion that he fronted for the project. Guests of the Galactic Suite can completely circle the globe in hardly over an hour, see a sun rise and a sun set every 40 minutes. They're currently taking reservations for their anticipated launch in 2012.

When you're all set and packed for your space adventure, the company will jet you off to an undisclosed Caribbean island for 8 weeks of intensive "James bond like" astronaut training. The space farers are then launched into outer space aboard a Galactic Suite spaceship to the waiting space resort. Once aboard, the guests orbit the earth at 18,641 mph, carrying them around the world in 90 minutes.

Wearing Velcro suits, guests can navigate their way through the luxury hotel. the three-bedroom boutique hotel has a joined up pod structure, which resembles a model of molecules. Each pod room has to fit inside a rocket to be taken into space and the rockets are to be kept attached to the pods. Galactic Suite says knowing a rocket is attached to your space pod assures customers they can still get back to Earth in case of a serious emergency.

The only serious problem is the bathrooms. Guests will take their showers in a zero gravity shower, floating through a room filled with bubbles of water, but they seem to be trying to figure out how to provide restrooms that suit the $4million price tag. Currently the only way to "accommodate intimate activities" in outer space is to hook up a hose to your special area, an act most land lovers would steer clear of.

When guests are not admiring the view from their portholes they will take part in scientific experiments on space travel.

It is uncertain how many people would be eager to make the trip into space for a weightless hotel stay. Galactic Suite said they calculated that there are 40,000 people in the world who could afford to stay at the hotel. Whether they would want to spend it velcroed to the walls of a space pod is really up to them.