The world's first space hotel will be built in 2025. Will you consider staying?

For a space hotel to operate normally, the supporting facilities must be guaranteed. For example, the price of commercial manned spaceflight must be reduced. Only because some people can afford it will people want to stay, and the hotel can operate normally.

But the current situation is that the Virgin Galactic spaceship, which is known as the cheapest space flight service, costs US$250,000 per person to enjoy it. For most ordinary people, even if they want to live in space, The hotel also has no financial foundation, so it can be said that it has more than enough energy but not enough energy.

According to the Orbital Assembly Corporation (OAC), the world's first near-Earth space hotel is currently in the "big pie" stage and will start construction in 2025, marking the beginning of the space construction industry. So what exactly is the hotel like? Who can live in it? Let’s take a closer look below. What will this space hotel look like?

The most eye-catching thing is the appearance of this hotel. It reminds me of the scene in the movie "A Space Odyssey: 2011", which is a huge wheel spinning in the universe.

The picture below is a scene from the movie "A Space Odyssey: 2011":

The picture below is a design drawing of a space hotel:

We all know that when a car turns, We will be thrown outward by a force, which is the centrifugal force caused by rotation.

In space, the gravity of the earth is very small, and people are floating in the air. By rotating the space hotel, people standing on it will feel the centrifugal force. This centrifugal force acts similar to the gravity of the earth. The effect can be described as artificial earth gravity.

This idea of ??a rotating space station was actually first proposed by scientist von Braun, one of the pioneers of the aerospace industry, in the 1950s. Both the movie and OAC Company drew on von Braun's ideas!

The gravity of the space hotel is only 1/6 of the Earth's. Why not completely simulate the Earth's gravity? Because if all the gravity of the earth is simulated, what is the point of humans going to space?

The picture below shows the idea of ??playing basketball in low gravity:

Considering special circumstances, this space hotel is also equipped with a "lifeboat" to help in the event of danger. , passengers can return to Earth in the following 44 "lifeboats", of which the flight and landing of the "lifeboats" are automatically controlled by programs. Who can live there? If ordinary people want to go, what are the ways?

OAC plans to build the hotel in 2027. It will have 24 living spaces, covering an area of ??more than 11,600 square meters, and will accommodate 280 guests and 112 crew members. It will be able to accommodate people living, working, and needs such as playing and eating.

The question we are concerned about is who can live there? Under normal circumstances, if ordinary people go to space, they must experience the process of riding a rocket and have some familiarity with the microgravity environment, so training is necessary.

In addition, according to the price given by OAC, a 3.5-day vacation in space will cost at least US$5,000,000. So only those who can pass the training and have the ability to pay at least 5 million US dollars will have the opportunity to go up.

From this point of view, this has almost nothing to do with ordinary people, such as me. Questions about space hotels: Just talk on paper again?

As early as 2018, the American company Orion Span claimed that it would launch a luxury space hotel, Aurora Station, in 2021, and that staying at the Aurora Station for 12 days would cost at least US$9.5 million. Therefore, it is also different from the average person. No chance.

2021 is not yet over, but as of early May, there is still no news about the Aurora Station.

This is not the first time that the "gimmick" of a space hotel has appeared. In 2010, the American Galactic Suite Ltd. claimed that it would launch a space resort in 2012. The average person only needs to spend 440 You can stay for 3 nights for 10,000 US dollars, and more than 200 people have paid, and a billionaire has raised 3 billion US dollars to specifically fund this project.

If built, tourists will be able to travel around the world in 90 minutes and see the sunrise 15 times every 24 hours. Now it seems that it is undoubtedly "talking on paper".

It is still difficult to determine whether OAC can build a space hotel in 2025. However, I personally don’t think it is optimistic. Let us wait and see.