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Pay $792,000 a night for a room with a view at this luxury hotel in space

The hotel in space would offer guests 384 sunrises and sunsets as they race around the planet for 12 day

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Photo: Orion Span

Justin Bachman | Bloomberg
Aboard the International Space Station, an astronaut’s life is typically work, exercise, rest, repeat. But what if your chance of having the right stuff for NASA’s astronaut corps is, to say the least, minimal?

Aurora Station, billed as the “first luxury hotel in space,” may be for you. Houston-based Orion Span Inc hopes to launch the modular station in late 2021 and welcome its first guests the following year, with two crew members accompanying each excursion. The platform would orbit 200 miles above Earth, offering six guests 384 sunrises and sunsets as they race around the planet for 12 days at

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