I love it when an actual bit of news reads like a headline from The Onion: Space hotel says it's on schedule to open in 2012. Seriously! A Space Hotel™©! The terrifying part is this:

It will take a day and a half to reach the pod — which Claramunt compared to a mountain retreat, with no staff to greet the traveler.

"When the passengers arrive in the rocket, they will join it for three days, rocket and capsule. With this we create in the tourist a confidence that he hasn't been abandoned. After three days the passenger returns to the transport rocket and returns to earth," he said.

So you get flown into space, dropped off and then engage your own rocket back to Earth? That sounds absolutely terrifying.

Via Kateopolis.