Newspaper
International Herald Tribune
GALACTIC SUITE
(United Kingdom)
GEARING UP FOR THE FINAL FRONTIER
[…] One prospective space resort operator is Galactic Suite, based in Barcelona, which aims to be host to its first guests in 2012. Created last year by a group of European engineers with backing from Spanish, Japanese and Middle Eastern investors, Galactic Suite expects to charge around $4 million for an adventure that includes eight weeks of training on a still-unspecified Caribbean island followed by a three-day stay in space. The company says it has 28 prospective tourists signed up, who will be asked to advance half the ticket price as a deposit by the end of 2008. […] Continue reading