An American technology company hopes to offer a space experience before the end of this decade.
The Gateway Foundation Voyager Station is currently under development and aims to provide rooms for up to 400 people. The circular rotating frame should allow the structure to mimic a Mars-like artificial gravity level.
Voyager Station will offer a variety of opportunities similar to flying ships, such as eating, relaxing and working environments, including spas, cinemas and bars.
This logistics will be made possible by Orbital Assembly, a company for the creation of space objects. The date when the project is supposed to start is 2025 and it is likely that the hotel will be operational by 2027.
The works are modeled on ideas first created by innovative rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, who was a key figure in NASA's Apollo space program.
"This is going to be the next industrial revolution," says Gateway Foundation founder John Blincow.
The project is not the first to attempt to make multi-planetary life, where we recall here Elon Musk's SpaceX collaboration with NASA. SpaceX transports astronauts to the International Space Station in an agreement with NASA.
Musk has said he intends to use half of his fortune to "help problems on Earth" and "half to help create a city on Mars to ensure survival (of all species) in the event that Earth is hit from a meteor or World War III happens and we destroy ourselves.
However, just because we can, does that mean it should?
Cambridge University cosmologist Martin Rees argues that we should not rely on increasing the sustainability of living in space to solve Earth problems. He also says the reality is far beyond what these companies aspire to.
"We have to solve these problems here. "There is no 'Plan B' for ordinary people at risk," he said.
Burimet: Euronews, Gateway Foundation, Investopedia
