Few months ago, I’ve downloaded a documentary about a person Paul G. Allen who is an aircraft builder and designer and who owns a company founded by himself called Scaled Composites to build aircraft. Not long ago he succeeded his lifetime dream of building a space ship. With this success he won the Ansari X Prize (a.k.a XPrize) and get himself and his company a funding of $10,000,000 to build a space ship for tourism. Initially, Richard Branson (Founder or Virgin Group) funded this project by Paul (SpaceShipOne) and so Virgin Galactic has been formed recently to jump start space tourism.

  

Image above is SpaceShipOne

    Just now i found out that Virgin Group has just started to receive deposit from customer who would like to fly to space at $20,000 deposites but the ticket price to the space is $200,000(estimated by Virgin Galactics). As early as 2008, man can fly to space commercially. If you like to experience the thrill of going to space and feel the weightless body, you just need to book for your seat because there will only be 8 seats for each trip.

    I’m wondering, what will the package of $200,000 provice? Just bring you up there and hover the earth for few minutes or hours and then fly back to earth? For sure there will not be a 5 star or even 1 star hotel waiting to your check in on the space. But i heard also that there is plan from a company to build a hotel or resort on space. But i doubt it will be anytime soon.