Now, book your luxury 'space hotel' for $9.5 million
Space
Orion Span made the announcement at the Space 2.0 Summit in San Jose, California on Thursday (April 05), unveiling their plans for 'Aurora Station'
People will soon be able to witness 16 sunrises a day and be able to float in space, all in a span of four years. How? Orion Span announced on Thursday that they are building the first ever luxury "space hotel" to cost a space tourist a whopping $9.5 million.
Orion Span made the announcement at the Space 2.0 Summit in San Jose, California on Thursday (April 05), unveiling their plans for “Aurora Station.” Orion Span says it plans to launch the initial Aurora Station module into a low-Earth orbit, at an altitude of 200 miles (322 km), in 2021.
Scheduled to welcome its first guests in 2022, Aurora is a planned modular space station, capable of hosting six people at a time.The hotel will orbit Earth every 90 minutes, which means guests will see around 16 sunrises and sunsets every 24 hours.
While a $10 million trip is outside the budget of most people's two-week vacations, Orion Span claims to offer an authentic "astronaut experience".
The Aurora Station is planned as a 35-by-14-foot module, or roughly the interior volume of a Gulfstream G550 private jet, reports say. It will hold up to six guests at a time plus two crew members.
They have already started reservations with an $80,000 deposit - which is fully refundable - where the guests are told to undergo a three-month long training court, half online and half at the company's space in Houston, Texas.
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According to Orion Span, guests will be able to take part in “research experiments such as growing food while in orbit” and keep touch with people on Earth via high-speed Internet.
The hotel will also be equipped with a virtual reality “holodeck”.
“Arriving at Aurora Station on a partner spaceflight, you’ll be warmly greeted with an experience that blows your mind,” reads a statement on the Orion Span website.
“Every 90 minutes we complete an orbit, meaning you’ll see day and night over Earth hundreds of times during your 12-day stay, with ample opportunity to photograph your hometown from space.”
Gusts will take part in research experiments like growing food in the orbit which they can then take home. They will also be able to do live video chats with people back on Earth through high-speed wireless internet access.
Reports say that the longer-term plan for the company is to expand Aurora Station from just one module to many, with a variety of potential uses.