Where do you want to go this year?

My ultimate dream vacation is to go into space. Space Tourism has become a buzz word and things are finally starting to happen. You can fly to the edge of space right now. During this exercise, you'll be able to see the black of vacuum, the curvature of the Earth, and experience a few precious minutes of weightlessness. In a few very short years, such trips won't be the extreme adventures they are today. It will be as routine as flying across the pond. Soaring higher, trips to a space hotel are not impossible and the technology exists today to make them go. Its a matter of investors being afraid to put their money into such a risky venture. The Japanese Shimizu Corporation (in concert with Kawasaki) has already designed both the rocket and the hotel. This video, cut together using footage from the Discovery Wings channel nearly 10 years ago, gives a little demonstration. Song is Track 03 (Samskeyti) by Sigur Ros off of ( ).

Where did you want to go again?

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Shimizu
• Kawasaki
• Space Tourism
• Space Hotel
• Sigur Ros
• Discovery Wings
• Space Cruise

[piplupsingularity]

Discovery Wings! I remember that, before it became the Military Channel.

$20,000 a ticket? It costs 10 times as much just to get into a suborbital flight.