[PIC GALLERY] Space

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Venus is brightest towards the right. Also visible are the Pleiades and Orion-

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Moscow-based Orbital Technologies said in september 2010, it hoped to fill the vacuum in the space tourism market by stationing an orbiting hotel in the cosmos.

The company has sky-high hopes that its planned Commercial Space Station can serve as a tourism hub for well-heeled travellers and offer overspill accommodation for the International Space Station and workspace for science projects.

But it's unlikely to come anytime soon - the company wants to launch a seven-room station by 2016 but may increase or decrease that capacity based on customer demand.

See more: http://orbitaltechnologies.ru/en/home.html
 
Delta IV blasts off from Vandenburg AFB Calif with recon satellite payload, 2011
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Germany Vs USA
In true World Cup spirit ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst (Ger) and NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Steve Swanson (USA) play a friendly game of football, celebrating their goals as only they can while living in the International Space Station.
 
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