First luxury space hotel plans to welcome guests by 2022 for US$9.5 million per person
Orion Span hopes to launch their Aurora Station hotel by late 2021, accommodating up to four travellers and two crew members at a time
Looking for a getaway that offers unmatched views of sunrises and sunsets? Specifically, 384 of them in 12 days? Try outer space.
Houston-based Orion Span hopes to launch the “first luxury hotel in space” – the 35-by-14 foot Aurora Station – by late 2021 and bring guests on board the following year. The hotel will accommodate up to four travellers and two crew members at a time, racing them around the planet at high speeds for 12 days, the company said in a news release.
Adventurers pay US$9.5 million per person – or about $791,666 a night – and their US$80,000 deposit can already be reserved online, company officials said. But do not fear, the deposit is fully refundable.
“We want to get people into space because it’s the final frontier for our civilisation,” said Orion Span’s founder and chief executive Frank Bunger.
Bunger said that one reason Orion Span can aim for a price of less than US$10 million per person is because of the declining price of launches.
“Everybody’s forecasting that [launch prices are] going to fall,” he said. “Almost every week there’s another rocket launch company that’s starting up with a new way to get to orbit cheaper, faster, better.”