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Space hotel says it’s on schedule to open in 2012. The Barcelona-based architects of The Galactic Suite Space Resort say it will cost $4.4 million for a three-night stay at the hotel, with this price including an eight-week training course on a tropical island. (via MSNBC)

Please let me magically have $4.4 million by 2012 for this express purpose.

This makes me wonder if history will repeat itself and, in the future, those of us without the means to afford private space travel will still be able to see the universe by joining some kind of galactic navy. I’m not really a military man, but a slogan like “Join Starfleet, See the Galaxy” would be enough to convince me to enlist.

Also, I’d much rather fly around in a cool-looking starship than spend three nights in a orbiting wad of cigarette butts.