Orbital flights, space stations and space hotels

* EADS Astrium, a subsidiary of European aerospace giant EADS, announced its space tourism
project on June 13, 2007.
* SpaceX is a private space company which is developing their own rocket family called
Falcon and a capsule named Dragon, capable of sending up to 7 people to any space station,
either ISS or a possible station by Bigelow Aerospace. Falcon 1 has already undertaken
testflights and successfully completed its first commercial flight on July 14, 2009,
deploying the Malaysian RazakSAT into orbit. Falcon 9 (which will be the rocket for
the Dragon capsule) is currently in vertical position at Space Launch Complex 40 in
Cape Canaveral, and will make its first testflight in late 2009.[citation needed] An
initial prototype of the Dragon capsule is expected to be used on this test flight;
SpaceX anticipates that Dragon could be qualified for human spaceflight within 3 years
of the receipt of NASA CCDV funding.
* Space Adventures Ltd. have also announced that they are working on circumlunar
missions to the moon, with the price per passenger being $100,000,000. They are
currently developing spaceports at the United Arab Emirates (Ras al-Khaimah) and in
Singapore.
* Orbital space tourist flights are also being planned[when?] by Excalibur Almaz,
using modernized TKS space capsules.

Several plans have been proposed for using a space station as a hotel.
American motel tycoon Robert Bigelow has acquired the designs for
inflatable space habitats from the Transhab program abandoned by NASA.
His company, Bigelow Aerospace, has already launched two first inflatable
habitat modules. The first, named Genesis I, was launched 12 July 2006.
The second test module, Genesis II, was launched 28 June 2007. Both Genesis
habitats remain in orbit as of mid-2009. As of 2006, Bigelow planned to officially
launch the first commercial space station by 2012 (tagged Nautilus) which will have
330 cubic meters (almost as big as the ISS's 425 cubic meters of usable volume).

Bigelow Aerospace is currently offering the America's Space Prize, a $50 million
prize to the first US company to create a reusable spacecraft capable of carrying
passengers to a Nautilus space station.

Other companies have also expressed interest in constructing "space hotels".
For example, Excalibur Almaz plans to modernize and launch its Soviet-era Almaz
space stations, which will feature the largest windows ever on spacecraft.
Virgin's Richard Branson has expressed his hope for the
construction of a space hotel within his lifetime. He expects that beginning
a space tourism program will cost $100 million. Hilton International announced
the Space Islands Project, a plan to connect together used space shuttle fuel tanks,
each the diameter of a Boeing 747 aircraft. A separate organization, Space Island Group
announced their distinct Space Island Project (note the singular "Island"),
and plans on having 20,000 people on their "space island" by 2020, with the number
of people doubling for each decade. British Airways has expressed interest in the venture.
If and when Space Hotels develop, it would initially cost a passenger $60,000, with prices
lowering over time.

Fashion designer Eri Matsui has designed clothing, including a wedding gown,
intended to look best in weightless environments