Some of us will soon be booking holiday in space! The idea may appear too fantastic to be true, but the space- tour operators of the future seem to ( 51)………it as a real possibility.They are not alone. NASA, America’s space agency , and the Space Transportation Association, a group of 16 aerospace companies, are ( 52)…….on a detailed study ‘with a view to establishing a US space tourism business’.It has been reported that 2005 will see the start of ( 53)……tourism in space. By around 2010 at least one hotel will have been built , in which tourists could stay for up to a week.The general plan, apparently, is to take passengers first to a height of 50 miles- the official boundary of space .There they will get a taste of ‘weightlessness’ for about two minutes and some spectacular ( 54)……of the Earth. It will cost them around 400,000 each. The money would be used to help develop a feet of vehicles and space hotels.The next step would be to ( 55)…..the up- and- down trips to orbital flights ( probably two or three circles of the Earth, for as many as 20 passengers at a time), giving four hours in which to take pictures and enjoy some weightlessness games. By 2020, ( 56)…….will have reduced the cost of a ticket to £4,000.In Japan, the Tokyo- based Shimizy Corporation has set a target date of 2020 for its orbiting space resort, to which it ( 57)…….to shuttle parties of 64 tourists, eventually planning sightseeing trips to the Moon.Its brochure says that a hotel will be constructed in space first. This will be followed by one ‘Lunar Hotel’ on the moon. These two hotels, it adds, will be ‘the basis for an entire space resort network’.Guests will leave from the International Space Port, ( 58)……in the Pacific Ocean. In less than an hour they will arrive at a large space station, and spend three days and two nights in room, which will, ‘provide artificial gravity so that everyone will be able to enjoy space travel without fully ( 59)…….themselves to weightlessness.’ The room modules will be in a doughnut-shaped 140 metre-diametre circle frame that will rotate at 3 p.m. This rotation will produce an artificial gravity level which will ( 60)….guests to sleep, stand, walk and take showers as easily as on Earth.
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