A hotel out of this world is just a few years away from becoming a reality.
This decade will begin and end the construction of the first hotel in humanity in outer space, according to the group behind it, Orbital Assembly.
The 3-year-old company plans to begin construction on Earth’s low-orbit Voyager station in 2025 and believes its interstellar center may be operational as early as 2027, the Daily Mail reported.
The representations of the celestial hotel are cosmic-chic: the individual pods are attached to a rotating wheel, with tubes connecting the different areas forming an X, as if it were the axis of the wheel.
Guests will not only pay for the novelty of the stage: there will be a wealth of equipment on board, including themed restaurants, a spa, a cinema, gyms, libraries, concert halls, lounges and bars to see the Earth. in rooms for 400 people. Needs, including crew rooms, air, water and energy, will also occupy a portion of the spacecraft.
Orbital Assembly also hopes to sell portions of the hotel to permanent stakeholders, including government agencies that want to use the space as a training center or homeowners who want to create a villa aboard the ship.
It is reported to orbit the world every 90 minutes and the rotation of the circle will generate an artificial gravity similar to that of the Moon. No construction costs have been revealed.
“This will be the next industrial revolution,” said John Blincow, the founder of the Gateway Foundation, which will run some of Voyager’s pods, according to the Daily Mail. The rotation aspect is “vital,” he added. Without gravity, people cannot be viable on a space station for an extended period of time; Orbital aims to make multi-month stays on Voyager a possibility.
“People need gravity so their bodies don’t break,” Blincow explained.
A robot called STAR (Structure Trust Assembly Robot) is configured to build the Voyager frame in orbit once the company completes some gravity-related tests.
