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