Booking your next Holiday in Space
Filed under: News | By: Daniel
Posted on: July 17, 2006 | No Comments

My cousin has not had a holiday in 10 years, now if he waits another 10 years and earns a lot of money then he could be booking his next holiday in space (would not of thought of that 10 years ago), this is because a US firm has launched an inflatable space hotel which is not ready for us yet but they hope it will be by 2010 (that’s just over 3 years…cool, better start saving).
So this looks like Virgin Galactic is not the only company aiming high for travel, the module of Bigelow Aerospace Genesis 1 has activated its compressed air tanks which has inflated the skin as they planned…all is going fine.
This has only just been achieved but was thought of back in the 1960’s by NASA, also this is a cheaper option because it inflates it then takes up less room on the launch vehicle.
The only thing that would worry me is the fact that it could get punctured by space debris, but we then read that the walls of the inflatable space hotel are made with Kevlar (the same stuff used in bullet proof vests).
Would you go into a space hotel if you had the money?
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