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Space Tourism Lifts Off: 2012 Space Resort Launch

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You think you'd find the Galactic Suite Space Resort in a cartoon, comic strip or kitschy hotel in Disney World, right? Wrong. Whether you like it or not, it's real, and plans to open its super-future-like doors to paying guests in 2012. Full Article at Treehugger

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  1. An artist's rendition of the the "Galactic Suite", the first hotel planned in space, which is expected to open for business in 2012 and would allow guests to travel around the world in 80 minutes.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo Gallery>>> BEIJING, Nov. Full Article at Xinhua

  2. Reuters reports that Galactic Suite plans to offer citizens the opportunity to travel to space and stay in an orbiting hotel pod starting in 2012. A three-night stay in the The Galactic Suite Space Resort will cost $4.4 million. Full Article at Shopping Blog

  3. Three-night stay will cost almost $5-million Handout / Reuters This artist's rendition shows a shuttle docking with the Galactic Space Suites hotel, which says it is still on schedule to receive its first guests in 2012. Full Article at National Post

  4. If you had the money, would you stay in the space hotel? It's certainly not a bargain, but then, space travel isn't cheap these days. Full Article at New York Daily News

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