'Space hotel' will be operational by 2025

The US-based Gateway Foundation has revealed plans to build a space station in the style of a spacecraft orbiting Earth.

The space station, called Von Braun, is shaped like a spinning wheel with 24 modules. The station will be designed as a space hotel, with rooms reserved for researchers and travelers who want to experience life in space.

Photos simulating hotel in space of Gateway Foundation.

The 'hotel' is capable of accommodating up to 400 guests at a time. Dezeen, the project's designer, said going to space would be another option that people would choose for their vacation, like sailing or going to Disney World. The goal of the Gateway Foundation is to operate Von Braun by 2025 with 100 tourists visiting the station each week.

However, the cost to experience life in space will be quite expensive. In the period 2001-2009, the price for a flight on Russia's Soyuz spacecraft was in the range of 200-250 million USD. Although Gateway acknowledges that living in their hotel will initially be more expensive, they also believe that prices may drop over time and have yet to set a specific price for this particular trip.

Because overall costs are still too high, most people believe that space travel will only be for the super-rich, but in the next few years, the Gateway Foundation aims to make space tourism open to all. people.

This space hotel will not only provide artificial gravity thanks to the induction dial but also the cozy interior of natural materials, as well as a cinema, bar and kitchen.

However, the company's plans do not stop there. They only see Von Braun as the beginning of a much bigger idea they call The Gateway, a 'hotel' containing 1,400 people, serving as a hub for large ships to send people to Mars or elsewhere in future.

1. Inside the first space hotel, guests watch the sunrise 16 times a day
2. The US opened a hotel in space, costing 800,000 USD a night