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From Spain to outer space.

Imagine the scene. You're on holiday, and you're looking out of the hotel window at an amazing view.

Planet Earth.

Soon, this idea might not be science fiction.

A company in Barcelona has got plans for the world's first space hotel.

According to the director, Xavier Claramount, the Galactic Suite Hotel is not just fantasy. It's going to open, and soon.

Six lucky millionaires will have the opportunity to be the first guests.

This will be the most expensive hotel in the galaxy. Four million dollars for a three-day holiday.

Guests will get into a spaceship on the ground, which will bring them up to the space hotel in orbit around the Earth.

Then they'll go round the Earth every eighty minutes and see fifteen sunrises every day.

They won't be able to walk around. They'll wear special Velcro suits, and climb up the walls, like Spider-Man.

They won't be able to have a bath until they get home, and using the toilet in zero gravity will be quite a challenge.

But how many people are going to have enough money to visit the Galactic Suite?

About forty thousand people in the world are rich enough, but they won't all want to go.

Claremont insists that it's the holiday of a lifetime.

The price includes an eight-week training course on a tropical island, where galactic tourists will learn everything they need to know.

That'll be more luxurious than life with zero gravity.

Barcelona is not the only contender in the race for space tourism.

Russian, British, and American companies are also going to offer space tourism before the end of the decade.

And it might not be a reality by two thousand and twenty, but perhaps one day Mars will be more popular than spa resorts.