Space hotel

A photo released by a Russia firm showing the plans for a hotel in orbit 217 miles up which would house seven guests in four cabins and have huge windows for views of the Earth turning below. It will take two days aboard a Soyuz rocket. The hotel, or the Commercial Space Station, is due to open by 2016. Orbital Technologies/HO/EyePress

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