BUDGET BILLIONAIRE BUILDING SPACE BALLOON BIVOUAC
Billionaire hotel mogul Robert Bigelow plans to sell reservations at an inflatable space ‘hotel’ by 2021. The 72-year-old, who made his fortune through the hotel chain Budget Suites of America, says the hotel will be part of a ‘monster’ space station. Bigelow says the per-passenger cost could be in the “low seven figures though most likely in the low eight figures.”
* Budget Suites, my eye.
* Does that price come with a continental breakfast buffet?
* A monster space station? Like, in the shape of Godzilla?
* What do you tip for maid service up there?
* Who do you call when the cable doesn’t work?
* I’ve lost track – how many space hotels are we supposedly going to have now? 30? 40?
CLIP: (knock-knock) “Housekeeping.”
