ABSTRACT
Ferrying wealthy tourists into the cosmos is the first and perhaps most spectacular part of this process of capital's cosmic expansion. After a number of abortive attempts by American and Russian conglomerates, American company Space Adventures sold flights on board a Russian Soyuz rocket to three multimillionaire businessmen. The idea of putting hotels in space was first mentioned by Barron Hilton, president of Hilton Hotels, as long ago as 1967. In addressing the American Astronautical Society, he assured them that "when space scientists make it physically feasible to establish hotels in space, the hotel industry will meet the challenge". Compared with an equal mass taken from the, moon, asteroids have about three hundred times as much freemetal.
