What are the planned space hotels?

There are currently two planned space hotels and many organizations expressing interest in this idea. The first space hotel, called nautilus , will probably be launched by Bigelow Aerospace in 2010. Hilton International is working on the Space Islands project, which is a connection between spent fuel tanks with space shuttle and create a large cosmic station. When it was originally conceived in 1999, the hope was to be launched until 2005, but the price tag of $ 6 - 12 billion in the US (USD) has been detaining the project.

Excalibur Almaz, a private company based in Isle of Man, plans to modernize and re -develop the Soviet era space stations for commercial purposes. Richard Branson, CEO of Virgin and Virgin Galactic, which builds cosmic material in New Mexico for suborbital flights, said he wanted to see Hotel Virgin Space in his lifetime. Other organizations, Space Iceland Group, wants to commercialize the space throughImage solar satellites Ahotels.

The furthest in its project is the farthest Bigelow Aerospace spread, which launched two experimental modules and placed a space price of $ 50 million USD to anyone who can develop a repeated vehicle for passenger transport to AZ space station. Contemporary commercial vessel, such as Scaled Composites 'Composites' X-A-P-A-Eaching Space Ship, are designed only for suborbital flights that hardly touch the lower limit of space and only a few minutes. In order to appear a viable cosmic industry, flights in orbit should be made safe, cheap and scalable. It is currently not none of these things.

If technical and economic obstacles can be overcome, the cosmic hotels market could become huge. Non -formal Hilton International Public Surveys suggest that most tourists would like to visit ProsTor if the price dropped. Among the main draws would be a fantastic view on Earth - visible 24/7 - and the weightless experience that astronauts described as magical.