Lucky tourists with $4M to burn will be able to cool their jets in Earth-orbit for 3-day stints - all beginning, you guessed it, in 2012 (Don’t worry - I only linked to the wiki. Too much scary stuff out there!). Just in time for a great view of the apocalypse.
This “boutique hotel in space” won’t be without competition, however. The Russian space agency already provides transport to the less-than-luxurious International Space Station and the United Arab Emirates are angling to be the spaceport of choice. Virgin Galactic has my money on it and plans deployment as early as next year. The flights, however, last only a couple of hours.
The real question is whether or not we want to have a the rich floating above us like so much useless debris. Er….
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