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I`ve bumped into some interesting article and I wanna share it with you and hear your thoughts about that project. The world`s first space hotel is slated to open in 2027 . Orbital Assembly Corporation, the group behind Voyager Station, has announced plans to begin building the hotel in low Earth orbit in 2025. The hotel will be able to accommodate 400 people and it will have a cinema, gyms, health spa, restaurants, libraries and more

I think it's safe to say that this is pure, unadulterated vaporware.

I'm sure Bigelow were supposed to have an inflatable space hotel in orbit by now.

That would never work. The complimentary teabags and shortbread would be floating around your room and having a shower would be a nightmare!

bearnard95 wrote:it will have a cinema

Popcorn in zero gravity? They really haven't thought this one through at all.

bearnard95 wrote:The hotel will be able to accommodate 400 people and it will have a cinema...

Playing remastered version of 2001: A Space Odessy and Spaceballs.

JLAmber wrote:That would never work. The complimentary teabags and shortbread would be floating around your room and having a shower would be a nightmare!

bearnard95 wrote:it will have a cinema

Popcorn in zero gravity? They really haven't thought this one through at all.

Yeah, you are right, without artificial gravity this project is impossible to be build. And as we may know artificial gravity is not invented yet.

Personally I consider this concept rather interesting. But there are some scientific problems that are needed to be solved before this project starts building. Also, as for me I don`t see any necessity of this space hotel. Just imagine how much it would cost to build it. I assume we have more important stuff in space exploration. ( not taking into consideration issues we have on Earth )

In addition to my answer above, I wanna say that I am not the specialist in the area of building such things but still I assume that it`s rather expensive thing to build and as for me it`s completely needless and useless. On the Earth`s orbit we already have a lot of space junk which became the issue for space companies. This project is not important in space exploration area.

If you were given the choice of staying in a hotel orbiting earth by itself, or in a hotel on the moon, which would you choose?

Lucas wrote:If you were given the choice of staying in a hotel orbiting earth by itself, or in a hotel on the moon, which would you choose?

The view from orbit would likely clinch it for me, although moon buggying does sound like fun (and does put me much further away from the vast majority of humans, which is never a bad thing).

Lucas wrote:If you were given the choice of staying in a hotel orbiting earth by itself, or in a hotel on the moon, which would you choose?

That's a tougher question than I thought at first glance.

I think for my photographically-inclined mind, I'd have to pick orbit, same as Ed.

ShanwickOceanic wrote:although moon buggying does sound like fun

Didn't you see Ad Astra? Moon buggying just puts you at risk of getting shot at by Moon Pirates.

The second a Marriott opens up on the moon, Hilton won't be too far behind.

vikkyvik wrote:

Lucas wrote:If you were given the choice of staying in a hotel orbiting earth by itself, or in a hotel on the moon, which would you choose?

That's a tougher question than I thought at first glance.

I think for my photographically-inclined mind, I'd have to pick orbit, same as Ed.

ShanwickOceanic wrote:although moon buggying does sound like fun

Didn't you see Ad Astra? Moon buggying just puts you at risk of getting shot at by Moon Pirates.

I don't know which I'd choose. I'd love to zip over the earth, looking down on the hurricanes and lights at night, and I don't think that the moon could really give me such an overwhelming sense of awe in comparison. On the other hand, being able to jump around and get out would be a blast...I think if they let me take one moon pebble home I'd pick the moon, since it would be my prize rock.

I am scared of moon pirates, though. And I don't like Applebees, so that would be a couple of downsides of picking the moon.

vikkyvik wrote:Didn't you see Ad Astra? Moon buggying just puts you at risk of getting shot at by Moon Pirates.

This article looks pretty great but let me distract you from dreaming of the view from this space hotel. The question is how they are going to solve artificial gravity issue. The artificial gravity being an essential component of the end-design marketed here, there won't be any significant source of profits prior to its full achievement. This does not work in the Space industry where contingency is inherent to this market.

I dunno, isn't the lack of gravity part of the experience?

I guess it is. It`s a good chance to invent artificial gravity and some new technology. But the main problem is that they must do it before the building of that hotel starts. And test it many times to get the best variant

Lucas wrote:If you were given the choice of staying in a hotel orbiting earth by itself, or in a hotel on the moon, which would you choose?

I would certainly choose a space hotel in orbit. Of course, it sounds weird, especially in current realities, but the idea sounds cool enough. We all know that a space hotel is fantastic, but what do you think, guys, what company will build such a hotel in the future?

I hope there will be research laboratories there. Or at least the profits from this hotel will be used for the further development of space science(or science in space). Cool idea, but will there be enough clients?

No self-respecting space hotel would be complete without a zero-gravity sports field. Putting the astro in astroturf.

Some people say that scientists are close to invent artificial gravity. This thing must be invented before the start of the building of this space hotel. But still, I guess there is nothing more than a rumor

"I heard a space company in Scotland is working on it" in 3...2...

ShanwickOceanic wrote:"I heard a space company in Scotland is working on it" in 3...2...

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I heard that a space company in Scotland is working on ... something else.
But the Orbital Assembly Corporation (OAC) has developed a plan for the Voyager station. So, already in 2025, construction work should begin on the world's first "space hotel" in near-earth orbit!