Getting Away From it All – Literally

Russia is on schedule with launching an orbital hotel, large enough to accommodate seven guests, in 2016.  Travelers will eat space food, take sponge baths, and have vacuum toilets because of the zero-gravity environment.  The orbital hotel will orbit 217 miles above Earth’s surface, and will cost $1 million for five days.

Adding to the growing list of space tourism companies, RKK’s ventures will also include the dark side of the moon, and Mars in 2030.  Russia will not begin selling seats until 2013 since US and European astronauts will be hitching rides to the International Space Station until that point. 

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/19/us-russia-space-tourism-idUSTRE77I21720110819