Stayin' Alive

Efforts are now underway to build a truly unique luxury hotel. The good news: This new resort will be out of this world. The bad news: Week-long reservations will probably cost $20,000 or more--because this hotel will be in space, orbiting 3,000 miles above the earth. Space Island Group Inc. (http://www.spaceisland.com) estimates funding for its proposed holiday space station at a mere $10 billion and will be leasing shuttles from NASA. Currently looking for interns to assist in the megaproject, Space Island hopes to implement (temporary) colonization as early as 2006.

This article was originally published in the October 1999 print edition of Entrepreneur with the headline: Stayin' Alive.