Chilling in Orbit: Russians to build luxury hotel in space

Would you travel to a luxury hotel in Space with prices ranging from $279 million to $446 million?

Russia has proposed a luxury hotel for the International Space Station.

The Russian space agency Roscosmos is floating the idea of building a hotel module for the International Space Station.

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Jason Torchinsky at Jalopnik reports the hotel could accommodate paid travellers for two weeks during a $40 million vacation to orbit.

The new module would give paying passengers private cabins that include larger-than-normal windows, bathrooms, personal exercise equipment and WiFi. Visitors would even have the opportunity to take a Cosmonaut-accompanied spacewalk.

Anatoly Zak at Popular Mechanics got an exclusive look at the specs for the proposed 20-ton module. Inside it would have four private rooms, two private “hygiene and medical stations” and a 16-inch window in a “lounge” area.

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The hotel would be called NEM-2 and has an estimated price tag ranging from $279 million to $446 million. The company is looking to secure at least 12 travellers who will commit to a $4 million down payment on the $40 million trip in order to begin construction.

This isn’t the first time Russian companies have promised to build a space hotel. In fact, in 2011 Orbital Technologies reported it would have a seven-room luxury space lodge in place by 2016, promising rooms priced at $1 million, one-week trips that would include sightseeing trips to orbit the moon. That project has yet to materialize.

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