Tourists, who will be accompanied by experienced crew, will dine on food prepared on Earth and sent up on the rocket, to be reheated in microwave ovens. Delicacies such as braisedveal cheeks with wild mushrooms, white bean puree, potato soup and plum compote, will all be available.

Iced tea, mineral water and fruit juices will be available, but alcohol will be strictly prohibited. Toilets will use flowing air instead of water to move waste through the system. Waste water will be recycled, while the air will be filtered to remove odour and bacteria and then returned to the cabin.

Sergei Kostenko, chief executive of Orbital Technologies which will construct the hotel, said: ‘Our planned module inside will not remind you of the International Space Station. A hotel should be comfortable inside, and it will be possible to look at the Earth through large portholes.

‘The hotel will be aimed at wealthy individuals and people working for private companies who want to do research in space.’

Tourists might also find themselves playing host to unexpected guests – there is a plan for the hotel to be used as an emergency boltholefor astronauts aboard the International Space Station if there is a crisis, rather than bringing them all the way back to Earth.

(Read by Nelly Min. Nelly Min is a journalist at the China Daily Website.)

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如果你已經(jīng)厭倦了地中海，也不再想去迪斯尼樂園，或許是時(shí)候來一次盛夏太空之旅了。那絕對(duì)是避開人潮的好去處。

隨著太空旅游大戰(zhàn)升溫，俄羅斯已宣布將建造首座太空旅館，這座旅館位于距地面217英里的高空，而且服務(wù)一流。

太空旅館的4個(gè)客艙可容納7位房客。在住宿體驗(yàn)方面，游客不僅可以通過巨型舷窗俯瞰地球美景，還可品嘗微波爐美食，而不必吃宇航員們常吃的經(jīng)過凍干管狀食物。

前往太空旅館本身就是一次大冒險(xiǎn)——要搭乘兩天的聯(lián)盟號(hào)飛船——而且出游價(jià)格不菲：住五天就要花費(fèi)10萬英鎊，另有50萬英鎊的旅程費(fèi)。

這家旅館（更準(zhǔn)確地說應(yīng)該叫商務(wù)太空站）將于2016年開業(yè)。內(nèi)部人士稱，這比宇航員住的國際空間站要舒服多了。

在失重的太空里，游客們可以選擇“站著”睡或者平躺著睡。淋浴間全密閉，以防水珠亂濺。（在回家前，國際空間站的宇航員只能用海綿擦身。）

旅館“服務(wù)生”都是經(jīng)驗(yàn)豐富的宇航員，所食用的食物是事先在地球上準(zhǔn)備好的，由火箭運(yùn)到太空，再在微波爐里加熱。美食應(yīng)有盡有，像野蘑菇燉牛肉、白豌豆泥、土豆湯、李子蜜餞等。

冰茶、礦泉水和果汁也都一應(yīng)俱全，唯獨(dú)酒是嚴(yán)厲禁止的。洗手間不用水而用流動(dòng)的空氣來派出穢物。廢水會(huì)被循環(huán)利用，空氣經(jīng)過濾去除異味和細(xì)菌后再回到客艙里。

軌道科技公司將負(fù)責(zé)建造這家旅館，總裁塞格柯斯登斯說：“我們?cè)O(shè)計(jì)的模型不會(huì)讓你聯(lián)想起國際空間站。旅館應(yīng)該是很舒適的，通過大大的舷窗可以看到地球。”

“這家旅館的目標(biāo)顧客是超級(jí)富豪，和想進(jìn)行太空研究的私人公司中的職員。”