Satellite launched to test space hotel concept (The AGE.com.au)

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Published 29 June, 2007, 14:21

Russia launched a satellite designed to test the feasibility of the world's first space hotel, the brainchild of a Las Vegas hotel tycoon who hopes to begin construction in 2011, officials said.

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