ZERO GRAVITY TOURISM MAY BECOME A REALITY THIS DECADE. IAN JARRETT SENT US THIS NOTE FROM THE FUTURE

The date is January 2013 and I’m enjoying my second day in the Galactic Space Suite and Pod Resort - orbiting 450km above the earth.

I checked in for a three-night stay, thanks to a special offer from a company called Space Adventures, which flew me here from an eight-week training course at a swanky resort in Mexico.

The cost is a snip. Just three million Euros and one million frequent flyer points, as I’m flying in the lunar off-peak season. I booked the trip through my travel agent, who has been selling these trips since 2009. He says he’ll retire soon to his private resort island in the Caribbean on the 10% commission he’s made on each sale.

It’s probably best I don’t mention the food served on the spacecraft. I was looking forward to steak and truffles, washed down with a good Burgundy, rather than the dehydrated salmon powder and dried yoghurt we’ve consumed several times during the one and a half days it took to get here.

Not that I had a huge appetite on board the spaceship. Without gravity, food aromas waft away before they make it to the nose. Believe me, when you can’t smell food, you can’t really taste it either.

It’s not that I’m unhappy. Here in my pod executive room, I have seen the sunrise 15 times today and I’ve been around the world once every 80 minutes. We’re travelling at 28,968km per hour and it has all been smooth flying, even when we almost hit a piece of space junk.

It’s hard to tear myself away from the view of the planets, but when I need to visit the bathroom my Velcro suit allows me to crawl around the room, sticking to the walls like Spiderman.

My three companions on the trip include a young Australian casino king with interests in Macau, a Hollywood starlet who has begged me not to mention her name to anyone, and a famous ex-Manchester United and Real Madrid soccer star who may or may not be connected to the Hollywood starlet.

That’s it from my Blog in Space: The Pod Butler has arrived with my in-room dining selection: dehydrated chicken curry and powered rice. Delicious.

Editor’s Note: Thomas Cook took reservations for the first passenger service to space in 1950. “We did warn there might be some delay,” said a spokesman for the travel company. The waiting list for the inaugural tour finally closed in 1996 with 10,000 names on it.