If you're already thinking about your next vacation, how about a room with a view that's out of this world?
Waking up in a chic hotel room with a view of the solar system could be the future of travel, at least if space company Orbital Assembly has anything to say about it.
Orbital Assembly is now aiming to launch not one but two space stations with tourist accommodation: Voyager Station, the renamed original design, is now scheduled to accommodate 400 people and to open in 2027, while new concept Pioneer Station, housing 28 people, could be operational in just three years.
Tim Alatorre, Orbital Assembly's chief operating officer, thinks this barrier will lift as space tourism takes off. This, said Alatorre, is a"win-win" for Orbital Assembly, as a lot of its near-term goals are funding-dependent.In a 2019 interview with CNN Travel, Alatorre explained the physics of Voyager Station as working like a spinning bucket of water.
Renderings of the interiors for both stations suggest an interior not dissimilar to a luxury hotel here on earth, just with some additional out-of-this-world views. While living in Germany, von Braun was involved in the Nazi rocket development program, so naming the space hotel after him was a controversial choice.
The International Space Station has hosted tourists in the past, including the world's first space tourist Dennis Tito in 2001. But Alatorre suggests the ISS is primarily a place of work and research, and Orbital Assembly's space hotel fulfills a different niche.
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