"Aurora Station" starts accepting accommodation reservations "852 million yen" world's first luxury space hotel "

A reservation receptionist for travel plans to aim for space by rocket and to stay at "space hotel" at an altitude of 320 km from the ground surface has started. The price of this plan of staying 12 nights in a space hotel that goes around the planet in 90 minutes is an extremely high price of 9.5 million dollars (about 1 billion yen) per person.

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It is the startup "Orion Span" based in Houston, USA that is proposing this travel plan for this space hotel. At the company, a space station type hotel developed by former NASA engineersAurora Station"In 2021 to space, aiming to start the world's first space hotel business.


Aurora Station is a space hotel with a size of about 10 × 4.2 meters, a small business jet aircraft "Gulf Stream G550It is possible for four guests and two crews to stay in a living space of about " The company plans to propose a 12-day accommodation plan at a price of 9.5 million dollars (about 1 billion yen) per person, and the simple usage rate is about 790,000 dollars (about 85 million yen ) It will be said that you can observe 384 times of sunrise and sunset for a total of 12 days during your stay.


Frank Bangger, CEO and founder of Orion Span, said: "We developed Aurora Station to make it a destination that everyone can use immediately, Aurora Station started the service soon after the launch, We will deliver it quickly and inexpensively to the universe as compared with the conventional one, and will provide an experience that can not be forgotten, "he said. It is clarifying the prospect of starting service provision in the first half of the 2020s.

Mr. Banger also said, "We want people to reach space, because it is the last frontier left by humanity." As you can feel a little from Mr. Banger's remarks, this plan seems to be a little different from a trip that senses "a bit goes to space", rather that the nuance of "experience astronauts" is stronger . Three months before the start of the trip, participants are required to take a dedicated training program, and initially take online lectures on "fundamentals of space flight" and "orbital mechanics", and as soon as the launch comes closer to Houston We will have training on physical strength at one company's facility. This curriculum seems to be a shortened version of the curriculum that a normal astronaut takes about 24 months to spend.


In this way, Orion Span's space travel plan, which can be said to be relatively "stubborn" in space travel, but there are also experts who see that this recruitment start includes the intention as a so-called "observation balloon". Phil Larson, who was in charge of the American space policy and public relations during the Obama administration and had a career belonging to companies such as SpaceX, said on Orion Span's announcement about "what kind of market actually exists I am doing it. " Although the plan to launch the hotel main body in 2021 and to start providing the service after that is announced, in fact it is supposed that details such as which rocket it is launched will not be decided yet, so from the market It is seen as an attempt to formulate a more realistic plan by exploring trends.

In addition, a reservation for a space travel of 85 million yen a night is accepted on Orion Span's website, and when making a reservation it is necessary to deposit 80,000 dollars (about 8.6 million yen) as a deposit to be refunded in full. Moreover, "It is still unknown information about room service and additional charge of minibar".

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