About: A Commercial Space Station houses seven guests in four cabins 217 miles away from Earth. A five-day stay in the luxury hotel pod will cost about $165,000 per person; the trip there on the Russian Soyuz will cost about $410,000.
Who: Orbital Technologies, a Russian company
Future: If the hotel is able to open as it plans, space tourism will become a reality by 2016. The company hopes to expand its space travel by taking guests to the dark side of the moon and eventually Mars.
-compiled by Amanda Gellett
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