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The inflatable space hotel

US millionaire punts roach motel into orbit.

On 12 July, a rocket took off from a Russian base carrying, among other things, one miniature inflatable space hotel filled with a few cockroaches and several Mexican jumping beans. Borne aloft by a former intercontinental ballistic missile, Genesis I carried Robert Bigelow's dream of a functioning space hotel one step closer to reality.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on July 13, 2006
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