Sweden's Ice Hotel Selling Tickets To Space

STOCKHOLM (AP) - You can sleep in eight degrees below zero, try
dog-sledging or go on a whale safari. Not exotic enough? Try a
space trip through the aurora borealis.
Sweden's famous Ice Hotel says it will start including tickets
for Virgin Galactic's space trips in its offerings to tourists. The
trips, from nearby Kiruna, the northernmost city in Sweden, will
start in 2012 if tests with Virgin's spaceships go according to
plan.
Ice Hotel spokesman Roland Sand said Tuesday that tourists will
be able to chose whether to go through the winter season's aurora
borealis or the midnight sun of Swedish summer.
According to Virgin's Web site, tickets for its first trips will
start at US$200,000.
Virgin is also planning space trips from the U.S. state of New
Mexico.

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