Houston-based Orion Span hopes to launch the first luxury hotel in space,The 35 by 14 foot Aurora Station may launch by late 2021 and bring guests on board the following year. The hotel will accommodate up to four travelers and two crew members at a time, racing them around the planet at high speeds for 12 days.
Adventurers pay $9.5 million per person or about $791,666 a night and their $80,000 deposit can already be reserved online. The deposit is fully refundable.
Orion Span’s founder and chief executive, Frank Bunger said, we want to get people into space because it’s the final frontier for our civilization.
Orion Span's proposed hotel offers plenty of attractions: zero-gravity flying throughout the station, views of patrons home towns from space, the ability to take part in research experiments such as growing food while in orbit and live streams with friends and family at home through high-speed Internet.
Since commercial spaceflight has yet to launch humans into space, Aurora Station visitors will have three months of training, which would begin with online courses to better understand basic spaceflight, orbital mechanics and pressurized environments in space. The guests will also have contingency training at the company's headquarters in Houston.Orion Span has taken what was historically a 24 month training regimen to prepare travelers to visit a space station and streamlined it to three months, at a fraction of the cos. The company goal is to make space accessible to all, by continuing to drive greater value at lower cost.
Bunger, a former software engineer said that the experience won't be for everyone. The Aurora Station will mainly cater to those who are passionate about space and astronomical study. We're not selling a hey let’s go to the beach equivalent in space. We’re selling the experience of being an astronaut. You reckon that there are people who are willing to pay to have that experience.
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