Final (summer holiday) frontier! Space hotel to open in matter of years – Express.co.uk

While space travel has been left to the experts, it is slowly but surely becoming commercialised - and a holiday in the stars could be on the agenda in as little as eight years. The Von Braun Space Station, which will come in the form of a rotating spaceship, is being designed by the Gateway Foundation. Much like the International Space Station (ISS), the Von Braun Space Station will be situated in low-Earth orbit.

However, unlike its predecessor, the Von Braun Space Station will have artificial gravity, making both visiting and long-term habitation far more comfortable.

The space hotel will reportedly feature a 620ft (190m)-diameter rotating wheel to simulate a gravitational force similar to that felt on the Moon.

According to The Gateway Foundation, 24 individual modules fitted out with sleeping accommodation and other support functions will surround the wheel.

In total, the space station which is named after Dr Wernher von Braun, the chief architect of the Saturn V rocket which sent the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon will be able to accommodate 450 people.

Lead architect of the Von Braun Space Station, Timothy Alatorre told Space: The inspiration behind it really comes from watching science fiction over the last 50 years and seeing how mankind has had this dream of starship culture.

I think it started really with Star Trek and then Star Wars, and [with] this concept of large groups of people living in space and having their own commerce, their own industry, and their own culture.

We expect the operation to begin in 2025, the full station will be built out and completed by 2027.

Once the stations fully operational, our hope, our goal, and our objective is to have the station available for the average person.

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