7 thoughts on “Hilton’s Lunar Hotel”

  1. Mr. Bigelow has been trying to build one for years, but its difficult when the space industrial complex, and its cheer leaders, are monopolizing all available spacelift via COTS and CCP.

    The sooner the ISS is dumped into the Pacific and NASA, or given to Russians to become their Albatross, the sooner the Hilton Corporation will be able to lease a facility from BA.

    1. Why would Bigelow lease to his competition? The first Bigelow habitat will probably have Motel 6 painted on the side.

      1. Ed,

        However NASA shouldn’t be his competition.

        It interesting how the space advocate community complained because NASA wanted to fly its own Zero-G aircraft when Zero-G corporation needed customers yet are silent about NASA flying a space station when Mr. Bigelow has one available. Especially given that the savings from replacing the ISS with a BA would be far larger than the minor amount NASA saved leasing services from Zero-G Corporation. I guess he just hasn’t donated enough to the various space advocate groups for them to lobby for him 🙂

        1. yet are silent about NASA flying a space station when Mr. Bigelow has one available.

          Really? Did I miss the launch of Bigelow’s “available” space station?

  2. I like this part:

    The archive that Dr. Young oversees in Texas also contains promotional Lunar Hilton hotel keys which were distributed as promotional item in hotels. “The idea that we’d have a plastic key card like we do today was – I guess – just way too far out for ‘67, ‘68. And so [the Lunar Hilton key] looks like an old fashioned hotel room key, except it’s sleek,” Dr. Young said.

    Predictions are hard, especially about the future.

  3. Completely off topic, but funny considering Penn’s investigation of Michael Mann, plus all the other investigations, is this short NBC story, which I quote in full.

    A former University of Kentucky employee charged in connection to several bank robberies has been sentenced to ten year behind bars.

    Crystal Little entered a guilty plea to four counts of first and second degree robbery in court Friday.

    Investigators say Little robbed four banks in the Lexington area from 2010-2012 while employed as an administrative support associate in the Office of Research Integrity at UK.

    Whitewashing unethical scientists seems a little lame now, don’t you think?

    And on a side note, Steve McIntyre has another Mann post up. 🙂

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