You may consider yourself an adventure traveler—you’ve hung out with the penguins in Antarctica, bopped from beach to beach in the wild South Pacific, hiked the jungles of southeast Asia without a guide, crossed the Kalahari on the back of a camel. Maybe you’ve even conquered that holy mother of adventure tourism and climbed Mt. Everest.
No matter how impressive your traveler’s pedigree, a brand-new, completely uncharted frontier is about to open: outer space. And you haven’t seen anything until you’ve seen it.
A Spanish architecture firm claims to be in process of building the first hotel in outer space, with an anticipated opening date of 2012. A three-night stay will only run you a cool $4.4 million, including 8 weeks of training on a tropical island (how can I sign up for just that?) It will take a day and a half to arrive at the hotel and once there, guests will be outfitted with Velcro suits that will allow them to attach to the walls of their pod in zero-gravity.

Home sweet vacation home.
Unlike most resort experiences, there aren’t many activities besides drinking Tang and floating around (so treatments at the space spa are going to have to wait!) but with 15 sunrises per day and a complete orbit around Earth every 80 minutes, we have a feeling space tourists won’t spend much time bored.
So we want to know: if you could, would you head into space for the vacation of a lifetime? If not, where’s your science fiction destination of choice?















