Hilton Studies Feasibility of Space Hotel

Roman writes "Here's an article about Hilton looking into a space hotel. It says they want it to look like the depiction of a Hilton in 2001 and it mentions the 'romantic possibilities of zero gravity.' I'd love to be the first on my block to steal a robe from that baby!" I've been hearing this dream for most of my life. Sure hope it comes true for some of you under-thirties someday, but I've given up hope of seeing space hotels in *my* lifetime.

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Space Tourism Links

[SEWilco]

Here are some more space tourism links for your 2001 holiday planning:

• Space Tourism Initiative
• SpaceFuture's Tourism page
• Space Markets: Tourism
• The Prospects for Space Tourism
• Zegrahm Space Voyages (wait until 2002)
• Artemis Project: Recreation (mostly lunar)

Arthur C. Clarke's prediction

[Lucius Lucanius]

2014 -- Construction of Hilton Orbiter Hotel begins,
by assembling and converting the giant Shuttle tanks
which had previously been allowed to fall back to
Earth.

http://www.gsreport.com/articles/art000072.html

There was a news story some months ago about he being involved in a plan with Hilton. Can't find any URLs, but apparently he has had ties to them for a while, hence the 2001 reference.

It's funny when you look at some of the logos in 2001. Pan-Am was the mega airline back then, but it went bankrupt. AT & T (the logo on the space phone) is still trotting along. Can't remember other merchandising tie-ins.

Apparently, unlike today's movies which get paid to include product placement, rumor has it that Kubrick had to *pay* the corporations to include their logos and add a respectable touch.

L.