THE ROOM All 215 rooms are 150-square-foot modules, manufactured to specifications and assembled on site.
Each factory is the length of five football fields laid end to end, and manufactures 13-foot by 51-foot modules for the assembly of high-rises.
The 2-by-4-foot modules are kept light in weight with a clay-soil mixture; real soil would need to be replenished.
The wall is covered in an overscale floral pattern called Winter Flowers Oro Bianco (a 9.56-foot-high by 4.25-foot-wide module sells for $6,581.12), and the lacquered wood console in Damasco Oro Bianco ($15,000).
The 43-foot-long module, one of several built by the Russian space agency, was bought from a Moscow museum a decade ago by Mr. Bartlett, a Midwestern entrepreneur best known for his waterskiing thrill show, which can be seen next door.
Sparse as it sounds, Mr. Sanders's 100-square-foot easyHotel module, in the easyGroup's signature bright orange, will offer a double bed on a platform, a sink, a toilet, a mirror and a shower, although the amenities most travelers expect -- telephone, television and a window -- will be scrapped to cut costs.
According to published reports, "The existing facility comprised a series of four 15,000-square-foot refrigerated modules that held 7.5 million library items.
Two of the shuttle's crew members, Nicholas J. M. Patrick and Lt. Col. Robert L. Behnken of the Air Force, will conduct three spacewalks to install a 23-foot-long, 15-foot-wide Tranquility module.
The company will ship the finished pieces to the Port of Galveston, with each module — fourteen feet in diameter — delivered on trucks propelled by as many as thirty axles, to support their weight.
Colonels Padalka and Fincke originally planned to use American spacesuits and to leave the station via the airlock on the American end of the station, about 30 feet from the power module that needed to be replaced from a spare aboard the station.
