ISS proposed to make a hotel for space tourists

Vladimir Solntsev, General Director of the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, proposed using some modules of the ISS to accommodate space tourists. Speaking at a meeting of the expert council on the rocket and space industry in the State Duma, the head of the state corporation noted that the modules of the International Space Station are loaded by one third, RIA Novosti reports. "We have modules on the ISS fly for 20-25 years, and they are beyond the resources, and their use for experiments and serious work is becoming less and less expedient. Why, for example, not to transform it into some space hotel, relatively speaking. the modules that we have to adapt for space tourism ", - he said.