Our spaceport is almost set up and our space-liners revving to go. The next step is accommodation…

   Source: www.galacticsuite.com

Enter Galactic Suite – an orbital space tourism business based in Barcelona. They aim to have a hotel in Earth orbit by 2012.

For those of you keen to slip away for a weekend, the cost for a space plane ticket will be R1.7 million and a three-day stay in the luxurious resort, R27 million. Gasping for breath? Well, according to Galactic Suite there are 40,000 people in the world with enough money to afford a little space weekend getaway.

For the less ‘privileged’ among us, there is a glimmer of hope in the form of Bigelow Aerospace – the competitors who have already put two inflatable spacecrafts in orbit.

Let’s cross our fingers and hope for a little bit of competitive pricing to ensue!