The Denver Post

Wanna get out – way out – for launch and dinner?

- By The Washington Post

Looking for a getaway that offers unmatched views of sunrises and sunsets? Specifical­ly, 384 of them in 12 days?

Try outer space. Houston-based Orion Span hopes to launch the “first luxury hotel in space” — the 35-by-14 foot Aurora Station — by late 2021 and bring guests on board the following year.

The hotel will accommodat­e up to four travelers and two crew members at a time, racing them around the planet at high speeds for 12 days, the company said in a news release.

Adventurer­s pay $9.5 million per person — or about $791,666 a night — and their $80,000 deposit can already be reserved online, company officials said. But don’t fear: The deposit is fully refundable.

“We want to get people into space because it’s the final frontier for our civilizati­on,” Frank Bunger, the founder and CEO of Orion Span, told Bloomberg.

Bunger said that one reason Orion Span can aim for a price of less than $10 million per person is because of the declining price of launches.

“Everybody’s forecastin­g that (launch prices are) going to fall,” he said.

Orion Span’s proposed hotel offers plenty of attraction­s: zero gravity flying throughout the station, views of patrons’ home towns from space, the ability to take part in research experiment­s, and livestream­s with friends and family at home through high-speed internet.

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