The first hotel in the universe will be opened in 2020

Bigelow Aerospace and United Launch Alliance (ULA) have announced plans to launch an inflatable hotel to space by 2020.

At a press conference during the 32nd US Space Conference in Colorado Spring, Colorado, Bigelow Aerospace Company (owned by billionaire Robert Bigelow) and United Launch Alliance (ULA) Joint Venture Company - a joint venture between Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing, announced a plan to launch a hotel like an inflatable house to space in 2020.

Billionaire Robert Bigelow stressed that ULA's Atlas 5 rocket could launch this hotel into Earth's orbit.

Bigelow said: "We hope NASA astronauts will be the main customers staying on the space hotel. We look forward to commercialization. Basically we want to be divided. sharing time ".

According to Loren Grush of The Verge - a well-known technology news site, with the introduction of habitat into orbit, Bigelow and Ula are trying to entice the response of SpaceX and Boeing to bringing people to life. or travel at inflatable hotels in space .

Bigelow Aerospace will launch an inflatable hotel into space by 2020.

Billionaire Bigelow and his company have been experienced in designing habitats in inflated spaces made of materials like Kevlar and other fabrics that protect against magnetic effects. debris in orbit.

Just last week, Bigelow Aerospace launched the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) - contained in the Dragon's body (Falcon 9 brought SpaceX's Dragon's spacecraft with more than 3,000kg of supplies to ISS. ) to serve SpaceX's next tasks. BEAM will provide about 3.6m more living space for astronauts.

Everything that happens on BEAM will provide Bigelow and ULA with invaluable data during the development of upcoming commercial space hotels, called B330 . Just like the BEAM, the B330 will be launched into orbit as a compact module, which will be pumped up to 330 cubic meters with just a press of a button.

Loren Grush said billionaire entrepreneur Robert Bigelow is planning to build two fully equipped B330 stations by 2019 and both will be sent into space in 2020.

All cooperation plans between Bigelow Aerospace and ULA as well as costs and procedures are not specifically reported. In a symposium, Robert Bigelow said: "It is too early to tell people about this plan in detail."

People from the project team are speculating on how the future life on the inflatable hotel will be.