Xavier Claramunt, CEO of Galactic Suites, a Barcelona, Spain-based space resort company, has told Reuters that the company's first space hotel will be open for business in 2012. Four point four million dollars will get a three-night stay at an orbiting hotel. Claramunt says they already have 43 reservations and a waiting list of 200.
The problem is there seems to be a lack of evidence to support Claramunt. Such a huge project would have had to start bending metal and testing flight hardware long ago to be ready by 2012, yet there have been no test flights, and the company has not presented prototypes of its hotel "pods" to the press and public-- a curious approach to promotion. Claramunt says the project is backed by an American billionaire, but declines to say exactly which one.
Maybe Reuters will do some more digging on this one.
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