Are You Going On Summer Holiday?-Spacelocker.com

Aug. 1, 2010 - PRLog -- So where are you going for summer holidays? Is it going to a camping trip, a trip to the lake, maybe some relaxing time at home reading, or something more exotic like travel abroad… or even further? Not everyone has the luxury of a holiday. However for those that do it can be a time to relax and rejuvenate the spirit.

There is no end of suggestions of what to do and where to go for a summer holiday when you Google the term “summer holiday”.  And those suggestions vary depending from which country you are doing your search. Overall the searches seem to relate to price and family. Tour operators, countries, cities, towns and villages are all creating “unique” get always for summer holidays.

But what do you think would be the ultimate summer holiday? Where could you go that very few people have gone before? Well what going on a space travel holiday? The space tourism is industry is officially open for  business.

I read an interesting article about space travel in an article published in www.science.howstuffworks.com/space-tourism. Here is a part of that article that you may find interesting:

“Initially, space tourism will offer meager accommodations at best. For instance, if the International Space Station is used as a tourist attraction, guests won’t find the posh surroundings of a hotel room on Earth. It has been designed for conducting research, not entertainment. However, the first generation of space hotels should offer tourists a much more comfortable experience.

In regard to a concept for a space hotel initially planned by Space Island, such a hotel could offer guests every perk they might find at a hotel on Earth, and some they might not. The small gravitational pull created by the rotating space city would allow space-tourists and residents to walk around and function normally within the structure. Everything from running water to a recycling plant to medical facilities would be possible. Additionally, space tourists would even be able to take space walks.

Many of these companies believe that they have to offer an extremely enjoyable experience in order for passengers to pay thousands, if not millions of dollars to ride into space. So will space create another separation between the haves and have-nots? In the next section, you’ll find out if you’ll be able to go to space even if you don’t have a million dollars to spend on a vacation.

Will space be an exotic retreat reserved for only the wealthy? Or will middle-class folks have a chance to take their families to space? Make no mistake about it, going to space will be the most expensive vacation you ever take. Prices right now are in the tens of millions of dollars. Currently, the only vehicles that can take you into space are the space shuttle and the Russian Soyuz, both of which are terribly inefficient. Each spacecraft requires millions of pounds of propellant to take off into space, which makes them expensive to launch. One pound of payload costs about $10,000 to put into Earth orbit.

Since the beginning of the space race, the general public has said, “Isn’t that great — when do I get to go?” Well, our chance might be closer than ever. Within the next 20 years, space planes could be taking off for the Moon at the same frequency as airplanes flying between New York and Los Angeles.”

We are off on our own holidays for August … but not into space … at least not yet. See you in September.

And remember, if you decided to take a space travel holidays in the future, don’t forget to take your Spacelocker with you.

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