SPACE: Hotels in orbit

From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Mon Jun 26 2000 - 11:57:06 MDT


Just saw in my morning newspaper a story from the LA Times about Robert Bigelow,
Las Vegas mega-millionaire, resort owner, sometime UFO enthusiast, and now space
tourism pioneer. He is putting up $500 million of his own $800 million fortune
for a project to build an orbiting hotel.... Gene Meyers' Space Island Group is
working on a similar project plan for building a hotel out of space shuttle fuel
tanks...



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