The MIT project — the Managed, Reconfigurable, In-space Nodal Assembly (MARINA) — was designed as a commercially owned and operated space station, featuring a luxury hotel as the primary anchor tenant and NASA as a temporary co-anchor tenant for 10 years. NASA’s estimated recurring costs, $360 million per year, represent an order of magnitude reduction from the current costs of maintaining and operating the International Space Station. — MIT News
Part luxury hotel, part future Mars explorer, MIT's MARINA has a modular design that works not only to provide a bar, restaurant, gym,and eight rooms for low orbit guests, but can be reconfigured to create an "interplanetary Mars transit vehicle that can enter Mars’ orbit, refuel from locally produced methane fuel, and return to Earth." At last: a luxury hotel at which it would be appropriate to charge sky-high prices.
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"fueled from locally produced methane"
Of which there is no shortage.
A Fartel.................I smell a Pritkzer.
^Pritzker
Propaganda fluff to keep NASA in the public eye. Similar to NASA's hookup with UBER with the flying car concept (which has been around since the 1940s with universal fatal results).
In an attempt to offset costs, a Snickers bar in the celestial rooms' mini-bars are priced at 18,000 dollars-- 10 percent higher than at the Waldorf Astoria.
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