{"id":10417,"date":"2019-12-21T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10417"},"modified":"2019-12-30T14:35:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T21:35:17","slug":"space-hotels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/21\/space-hotels\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Hotels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from Thomson Reuters<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stellar view? Space hotels race to offer tourists a room in the sky<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

by\u00a0Umberto Bacchi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A section of the Aurora Station space hotel is seen in this handout promotional image. Handout picture courtesy of: Orion Span<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

TBILISI, Dec 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tired of your ordinary earthly vacations? Some day soon you might be able to board a rocket and get a room with a view – of the whole planet – from a hotel in space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least, that is the sales pitch of several companies racing to become the first to host guests in orbit on purpose-built space stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It sounds kind of crazy to us today because it is not a reality yet,” said Frank Bunger, founder of U.S. aerospace firm Orion Span, one of the companies vying to take travellers out of this world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“But that’s the nature of these things, it sounds crazy until it is normal.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. multimillionaire Dennis Tito became the world’s first paying space tourist in 2001, travelling to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket for a reported $20 million. A few others have followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, companies like Boeing, SpaceX and Blue Origin have been working on ways to bring the stars into reach for more people – opening up a new business frontier for would-be space hoteliers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from Thomson Reuters Stellar view? Space hotels race to offer tourists a room in the sky by\u00a0Umberto Bacchi TBILISI, Dec 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tired of your ordinary earthly vacations? Some day soon you might be able to board a rocket and get a room with a view – of the whole planet – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}