Four Spaniards will be the first to stay for 4 days at 450 kilometers from the  Earth

The space tourism company introduced the first "spa" to be installed in space

(Barcelona. August 2008) The Space Tourism Company Galactic Suite already has 38 reservations made by tourists who in 2012 will travel to the hotel to spend four days at 450 kilometers from the Earth. The trip, which  will cost 3 million euros, also includes 18 weeks of preparation for the tourists to acquire experience in  space. This preparation will take place on an island in the caribbean, where the participants can travel with their families.

Of the 38 reservations made through the company'S website (www.galacticsuite.com) since January 2008, 4 belong to people of Spanish nationality, while the rest is divided between people from Russia, USA, United Arab Emirates, Australia, China and South America.

Reservation Breakdown
 
4 Spain
8 United States
7 Arab Emirates
6 China
5 Russia
5  Australia
3 Southamerica

The first "SPA" in space

The company is now working in the programme of activities that tourists will undertake during the four days. "Tourists come to the hotel with all the necessary items to stay, as if they were staying at the most extreme refuge on earth", explained the founder and director of Galactic Suite, Xavier Claramunt. "This refuge will offer a mixed programme of reflection and exercise to seize the unique physical conditions encountered in space".

One of the most innovative experiences that tourists can experience is the bathroom in zero gravity. To that end, the team of engineers and architects of Galactic Suite have developed the spa space, the first spa to be installed at 450 kilometers from Earth, one of the modules of the  hotel. The spa will float within acontaining a water bubble of 20 litres.

The tourist, already trained to avoid the effects of water in a state of weightlessness, can play with the bubble dividing it into thousands of bubbles in a never-ending game. In addition, the transparent sphere may be shared with other guests.

SPACEPORT ON AN ISLAND IN THE CARIBBEAN

The new Galactic Spaceport Suite, the first commercial spaceport in the world, will be built on an island in the Caribbean and the project  will be signed by the company Equip architecture, also based in Barcelona. Galactic Suite does not rule out building new spaceports in the future in other countries around the world, in order to facilitate accessibility to other hotels built in space to as many people as possible.

The spaceport of Galactic Suite incorporates, for the first time, a revolutionary space launch system designed to maximize security and minimize the impact on the environment. The team of engineers and architects of the space tourism company has designed an infrastructure  where the spacecraft will speed magnetic levitation and across a runway launch Maglev. This new technology is an accelerator suspended in the air over a road, being propelled forward by the repulsive (negative) and attractive (positive) forces of magnetism.

After reaching the speed of sound, the spacecraft is separated from the accelerator and Maglev will reach orbit (450 kilometers from the Earth) using its rocket engine. At the time of separation, the accelerator and brake will bring Maglev back to its starting  point to prepare for the next launch. The trail will take off at a length of about 3 miles that will allow the spacecraft to accelerate 1000 kph (620 mph) in less than 20 seconds.

The founders of the company explained that the Maglev technology "will  establish commercial flights into space toward our orbital hotels. The  most expensive part of any journey to LEO are the first few seconds - leaving the ground. This technology is very competitive in its cost in respect to other forms of space transportation, and is inherently safe and sustainable. "

SPACE TOURISM COMPANY

Galactic Suite is a private space tourism company, founded in Barcelona in 2006, which aims to provide the first global experience of space tourism and which will combine an intensive programme of training astronauts to relax with a programme of activities on a tropical island as a process preparation to space travel.

Its ultimate goal is to make space tourism reach the general public to develop the first global chain of hotels in space. Under their plans, a first hotel in space could receive its first guests in 2012.

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Programming four days in space

Homo Spaciens: Mens sana in corpore sano

Tourists come to the hotel with all the necessary items needed to spend   four days in space, as if they were arriving at the most extreme refuge on the earth. In this refuge a mixed programme of meditation/reflection will be as well as exercise to seize the unique physical conditions offered by the space and deepen the understanding of oneself.

Day 1:
Arrival and acclimatization

On arrival tourists will be offered an energy cocktail and will be welcomed to their rooms to leave luggage, rest and acclimatize to space travel. While the tourists rest, crew members will check system development. After the tourists have resteed, and make a fully functioning hotel, the crew will make the first connection to earth so that tourists can greet loved ones and address the media upon request. Space tourists will be allowed to boast a bit. We cook for all and after eating, tourists and crew will withdraw to their rooms to rest after the first day.

Day 2 and Day 3:
Excitement and meditation

Corporate Module: is the form in which they may know the possibilities of the body in weightlessness. These exercises are not required to keep in shape physically but are designed to fully experience the special conditions facing the human body outside the atmosphere. This will give the tourist a tape cylindrical endless bike where you can exercise your legs and arms. The most amazing experience that can be found in module 'corpore' is the bathroom in gravity zero. This is an activity specifically designed to float within a transparent sphere in which we will introduce a bubble of water of 20 litres. The tourist, already trained to avoid the effects of water in a state of weightlessness, can play with the bubble dividing it into thousands of bubbles in a never-ending game.

Mens Module: This module is more personal. It’s a space where tourists may be compiled privately to rest. Also in this module the starry universe and the Earth can be observed as well as read, write, consult the media and to connect the Earth. The module will be configured as a womb in which tourists can float in complete weightlessness. Areas of Velcro allow some controlled movements to read or stay comfortably while lying can be seen outside by screens placed in the area of the window will be available information regarding the position and velocity hotel as well as the search for geographical areas on earth or sidereal maps in the universe. Using special cameras could be taken spectacular personal photographs may be sent immediately to Earth.

Day 4:
Farewell

Last day can be sad. A few departures from the Sun. There will be time to take pictures but the latest turn tourists must gather their belongings and everything that have brought with them or even waste that is generated by their stay. The hotel space should be ready for next tourists.

Tourists and crew will toast with special drinks and dressed-up properly to enjoy the extreme conditions that will experience in the supersonic re-entry into the atmosphere in which forces would be tested grade 4G.