Picture this: you’re flying to planet Fhloston to stay at a new luxury hotel, arriving by spaceship in your own personal sleep pod. OK, that may be the Luc Besson film The Fifth Element, but holidaying outside Earth is perhaps a little closer than the film, set in the year 2263, suggests. As with all brilliant sci-fi films, it has aged terribly because its far-flung predictions have come true a lot sooner than it thought.
We don’t yet have VR headsets that magically put Chanel make-up on your face with perfect precision, or pills that microwave into entire cooked chickens, but holidaying in space could be a legitimate option in the near future – though perhaps not by 2029.
