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March 8, 2021
Space tourism: The project plans to be able to enjoy a restaurant, as well as a cinema room
A first hotel in space in 2027? Image Credit: Voyager Station
The conquest of space is no longer limited to the work of space agencies. Other opportunities are gradually emerging, starting with space tourism. Already, a first tourist flight in a Space X rocket is announced for the end of 2021. But now we are considering the construction of the first hotel in low earth orbit.
A first hotel in space in 2027? Image Credits: Voyager Station
Scheduled for launch in 2025 under the leadership of the California-based Orbital Assembly Corporation, this hotel, dubbed "Voyager Station", is expected to be operational by 2027. It will offer the same services as a cruise ship. Space tourists will be able to enjoy the resort's restaurants, bars, a cinema, a gym, a spa ... The hotel is expected to accommodate up to 400 people.
A chimera?
The tourist resort will take the shape of a
large circle, like the ship in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, and will
be made up of 24 housing modules 20 meters long and 12 meters wide. The
station will turn on itself to generate artificial gravity.
Voyager Station project. Animation Credit: Gateway Foundation
The Gateway Foundation imagined the concept of the Voyager Station 2012. A project that began to materialize in 2018 with the creation of the Orbital Assembly Corporation (OAC) which counts among its teams veterans of NASA, pilots, but also engineers and architects.
Cockpit (control room) of the station. Image Credits: Voyager Station
Unfortunately, not much more is known about Voyager Station. Building such a project is expected to cost an astronomical amount of money. As for the asking price for a night in this atypical hotel, it should match the immensity of this project which, at the present time, still seems impractical in such a near future.
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Moreover, current means of space transport cannot transport dozens of space tourists at the same time and developing such spacecrafts requires at least ten years. So this project is totally impractical and fanciful, because it does not take into account parameters such as space debris which already pollutes the orbits of the Earth as well as space radiations etc...
Related links:
Gateway Foundation: https://gatewayspaceport.com/
Orbital Assembly Corporation (OAC): https://orbitalassembly.com/about
Images (mentioned), Video, Text, Credits: AFP/Gateway Foundation/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga.
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