‘BEAM ME UP’: Space hotel set to open in 2027

After a few COVID-related delays, the world’s first space hotel is expected to become a reality in 2027.

Construction of Voyager Station is scheduled to begin in 2026. 

The space hotel is comprised of 24 modules connected by elevator shafts that make up a rotating wheel orbiting the Earth. 

Space travel is coming

Construction company Orbital Assembly Corporation (OAC) will build the space hotel. Earlier this week he told CNN space travel will be possible in this decade. 

“We’re trying to make the public realize that this golden age of space travel is just around the corner. It’s coming. It’s coming fast,” Blincow said.

OAC head designer Tim Alatorre told CNN his team wanted to “bring a slice of earth to space”. 

The space hotel will have regular beds and showers in warm suites with ensuites. Expect chic bars and restaurants too.

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Space hotel activities

Alatorre confirmed the space hotel did have plans to serve space foods such as freeze-dried ice cream.

He also said the hotel activities list would include several things you can not do on earth.

“Because of the weightlessness and the reduced gravity, you’ll be able to jump higher, be able to lift things, be able to run in ways that you can’t on Earth,” he said. 

How does it work?

We’re not the best at physics, so we can’t confirm exactly how the space hotel would work. However, Alatorre told CNN the rotating wheel would create a simulated gravity. 

“The station rotates, pushing the contents of the station out to the perimeter of the station, much in the way that you can spin a bucket of water – the water pushes out into the bucket and stays in place,” he said.

The closer you are to the outside of the wheel, the more the feeling of gravity increases.

How much will the space hotel cost?

OAC is not yet advertising a room rate. But you can expect it will be expensive. 

Virgin Galactic plans to take passengers into space for $250,000 per person.

The good news is that the team behind the hotels hopes a stay at the space hotel will one day be equivalent to “a trip on a cruise or a trip to Disneyland.”

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