Your next
weekend getaway may actually be in space!
Waking up in a chic hotel room with a view of
the solar system could be the future of travel, at least if space company
Orbital Assembly has
anything to say about it.
The U.S.-based company has revealed new information and concepts for its
space hotel idea and is aiming to launch not one but two space stations with tourist
accommodation.
Voyager Station scheduled to accommodate 400
people and to open in 2027, while new concept Pioneer Station, housing 28
people, could be operational in just three years.
The goal, says Orbital Assembly, is to run a
space "business park" home to offices as well as tourists.
But there's still a pretty unbelievable price
point attached to any space trip, which makes it hard for many of us to
actually envisage spending our annual leave out of this world.
Tim Alatorre, Orbital Assembly's chief
operating officer, thinks this barrier will lift as space tourism takes off.
"The goal has always been to make it
possible for large amounts of people to live, work and thrive in space,"
Alatorre told
CNN Travel in a new
interview.