2001: A Space Odyssey: Sure we have space tourists, but the Lunar Hilton is two decades overdue. Photo / Getty Images2001: A Space Odyssey: Sure we have space tourists, but the Lunar Hilton is two decades overdue. In the University of Houston Hilton Archives you'll find many items under the 'Lunar Hilton' project. However, there were plans for both a Lunar Hilton on the moon's surface and an Orbital Hilton as a privately-owned space station. Business rival Bezos has claimed his space tourism venture is the only qualifying space flight past the internationally defined 100km Kármán boundary of space.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 02, 2021 08:15 UTC