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From: FJB	8/27/2011 6:45:25 PM
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Space hotel to give rich a thrill that's out of this world Russian aerospace engineers join race to provide wealthy thrill-seekers with the ultimate holiday destination Robin McKie, science editor guardian.co.uk, Saturday 27 August 2011 19.40 BST Article history Up to seven space enthusiasts at a time would be housed in the Hotel in the Heavens, which is planned by Russian company Orbital Technologies Russian engineers have announced the ultimate get-away-from-it-all holiday, revealing plans to put a hotel into orbit 200 miles above Earth by 2016. The four-room Hotel in the Heavens would house up to seven guests who would be able to cavort in zero-gravity while watching as our planet turns. The out-of-this-world experience will not come cheaply, however. Space tourists will have to pay £500,000 to travel on a Soyuz rocket to get to the hotel before stumping up a further £100,000 for a five-day stay... guardian.co.uk

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