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Date: Mon,  6 Nov 89 05:23:37 -0500 (EST)
Subject: SPACE Digest V10 #212

SPACE Digest                                     Volume 10 : Issue 212

Today's Topics:
       Re: Space Hotel   or   Donald Trump has missed the boat.
			  Re: Wood in space
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Date: 6 Nov 89 06:57:21 GMT
From: voder!dtg.nsc.com!andrew@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Lord Snooty @ The Giant Poisoned Electric Head )
Subject: Re: Space Hotel   or   Donald Trump has missed the boat.

In article <9854@maven.u.washington.edu>, games@maven.u.washington.edu (Games Wizard) writes:
> Their plan is to start with a SPACE HOTEL.  We missed the boat when we talked
> (mostly jokingly) about Donal Trump.  These guys are serious.  The hotel
> will be a permanently manned station.  I didn't hear if they were going to
> lease space to scientists or not, but I suspect that they will ( if it brings
> in money, then it will get done. )
> 
> They are planning to design and build a space plane ( true reusable ) to
> take off, get to the HOTEL, and come back, land, get refulled and do it again.
> no expendables save fuel.  This plane is to carry about 80 passengers.

Thanks for the informative posting, which I enjoyed. It reminds me of a
precedent - in the Himalayas. The Japanese have a hotel high up in Solu Khumbu,
near Mount Everest, with a private helipad/copter and oxygen piped into
every room. When I was living in the region over some months in 1970/71,
construction was nearing completion. I assume it's still operating.
So there's a supporting experience to bolster the credibility of that
story of yours. I don't know unfortunately who built the Himalayan hotel.
Apparently the views are breathtaking through its panoramic windows,
(which is really not difficult in this incredibly beautiful region).
Prices are definitely in the luxury class. I can't comment in more detail
personally, since at the time I was travelling around the world on a
total of about $300! - a little out of my range then!
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Andrew Palfreyman	a wet bird never flies at night		time sucks
andrew@dtg.nsc.com	there are always two sides to a broken window

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Date: 28 Oct 89 22:05:07 GMT
From: mcsun!ukc!stc!axion!vision!simon@uunet.uu.net  (Simon Taylor)
Subject: Re: Wood in space


I remember reading somewhere that some of the early moon landers had a
wooden sphere on their base.

The idea was that the sphere collapsed on landing, so reducing the impact
I think this was in the days before controlled soft landings.

If anyone is interested, I will dig out the book and get some more information.


Simon


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