🔄FROM THE ARCHIVE How one aerospace company is preparing for the advent of tourism in outer space.
is slated to be a luxury resort designed to accommodate 280 guests and 112 crew members, complete with a restaurant, a bar, a concert hall, a gym and even a cinema.
At first its gravity level will be similar to the moon’s, about a sixth of Earth’s. That’s roughly a revolution and a half per minute. Alatorre says they hope to spin it up to Mars level , and eventually to replicate the weightiness of our home planet. But with scant research on how, they want to better understand their guests’ physiology before raising the g-force.
Every earthbound resort touts the beauty of its environs, but Voyager’s will be truly unparalleled. In renderings of the station, as guests mill about a sparse, futuristic interior, they are typically gazing out the windows. Each scene is a variation on the same surreal theme: a fraction of Earth’s gargantuan frame, blue and green and white, curving against the black of an interstellar void.
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