Looking for an alien vacation name and address with starring view ? If you ’re willing to expect a few years , you may be able-bodied to stay aboard the Aurora Station , a luxury space hotel that developer Orion Span plans to have open to guests by 2022 .
concord toThe Architect ’s Newspaper , the hotel will be the world ’s first fully - modular infinite station , if Orion Span ’s current timeline come together . It will also be the first space station to operate as a hotel . The initial capsule will be 43.5 feet recollective and 14 groundwork broad , with extensions potentially being added to lodge more guests .
To have the Aurora in person , guests will first need to fill in a three - month training programme . That includes an on-line course , category at Orion Span ’s training facility in Houston , Texas , and net training on the space station itself . While that ’s a lot more prep time than what ’s required for your average hotel stay , it ’s just a fraction of the fourth dimension empower byastronautstraining on Earth .
Once on board the Aurora , up to six passenger , include professional astronaut usher , will share a 35 - foot - by-14 - invertebrate foot bread and butter space . Orion Span’swebsite reads :
Start - ups have been promising to pioneer space tourism for years , but so far these plans have been mostly talking and little legal action . If Orion Span want to be different , it will ask to erect a band of funding and find a launch provider in just four geezerhood , and the company has yet to reveal how it plans to do either . Even if the project does make it off the undercoat , book a ticket will be difficult for most people : A 12 - day trip will cost $ 9.5 million per individual , and reservation for the first four months have already sold out .
If you ’re still concerned , you may contactOrion Spanto put down your refundable $ 80,000 repository .
[ h / tThe Architect ’s Newspaper ]
