Private Commercial Space Stations

[EndtheMadnessNow]

These stories of orbital space hotels popping back in the media jungle were "just around the corner" go back to the 50s.

Von Braun Space Station - Gateway Foundation Space Hotel - Space Hotel 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLiCcxvJGQE

World’s first ‘space hotel’ is set to open in 2027:




Gateway Spaceport was formed in 2012 to build the first rotating spaceport and space hotel. On Jan 1, 2022, Gateway Foundation's name was changed to Gateway Spaceport LLC, inspired in part by the ideas of Wernher von Braun.

The first 'space hotel' plans to open in 2027

How one aerospace company is preparing for the advent of tourism in outer space.

The word vacation conjures many images: pristine beaches, glittering ski slopes, outstretched highways and theme parks. It doesn’t call to mind cosmic journeys upon colossal rotating wheels, or vistas defined by the long arc of Earth’s surface — but it might soon.

Six decades in, the Space Age is marching steadily into its commercial phase, allowing more and more private individuals to purchase passage beyond Earth’s atmosphere. In just the past few months, the billionaires Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson have paid to cross or arrive at the edge of the Kármán line, the boundary between our atmosphere and outer space. Beside a budding clientele of Bezos and Branson stature, the era of full-fledged pleasure trips to space seems at hand, even for a multi-day escape.

To accommodate such a jaunt, the Sacramento start-up Orbital Assembly Corporation (AOC) has announced plans to open a space hotel by 2027. As the first of its kind, Voyager Station is slated to be a luxury resort designed to accommodate 280 guests and 112 crew members, complete with a restaurant, a bar, a concert hall, a gym and even a cinema.

If this sounds preposterous, Tim Alatorre, OAC’s vice president and architect behind the hotel, understands the skepticism. But it won’t be long, he insists, before such talk is commonplace. “I think it’s going to be a normal thing, where your mom went to space, your dad went to space,” he says. “Being an astronaut is not going to be a novel thing anymore, because everyone has done it.”

The concept of the rotating wheel, proposed in the early 1900s as a way to generate artificial gravity, was later popularized in the 1950s by the German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun (Voyager was originally named in his honor). Thanks to the centrifugal force it produces, visitors will be able to move about normally, more or less. Or, as OAC puts it on its website: “We provide gravity.”



After blasting off from Earth, guests will arrive at a central, zero-gravity docking hub. From there, elevator shafts will carry them outward to a chain of “habitation modules” arranged around the circumference of the circular station. It’s only there, at the edge of the wheel, that the centrifugal force will be strong enough to keep guests and their surroundings firmly grounded.

Full article: The first 'space hotel' plans to open in 2027


If it were coming in 2027 the actual real parts (not CGI like in Elysium) would already be manufactured.

Don't forget your hairspray.



CEO, President of Orbital Assembly Corporation (OAC) with only 7 employees  is...

Rhonda Stevenson - Stevenson also heads the non-profit organization ─ Tau Zero Foundation ─ dedicated to pioneering advancements toward interstellar flight, focusing on the intermediate steps of advanced propulsion and energy storage for on orbit capabilities and beyond. She is the creator and host of the “Space Matters” show, a syndicated weekly digest of space industry activities and relevant conversations.

In 2013, Stevenson founded Blue Elysium Enterprises, which provided strategic executive consulting to technology companies. Earlier in her career, she was chief marketing and promotions officer at Deep Space Industries, and founder of Space Mining and Resources Coalition.

And regards to "Tau Zero Foundation" see Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program

From 2013 to present, Rhonda Stevenson is also founder & CEO of Space Mining and Resources Coalition, Inc. according to OAC's 2021 Annual Report.


A brief history of space hotel fantasy tourism...

Beginning at least in the 1960s expectations of space tourism have been the “stuff” of space activism. To date, however, the prospect for broad, sustainable space tourism remains a dream. I would argue that much of the boosterism in the space tourism arena has been predicated on hopes and dreams, unicorns and rainbows, rather than reality.

Despite recent visibility, space tourism is hardly a new concept. Mention of the idea goes back to the beginning of the twentieth century, and with the development of workable rockets in the late 1950s the concept gained a foothold. Perhaps the most exciting early effort took place when Pan American World Airways announced in 1968 that it would take reservations in anticipation of future space tourism as a promotion for the Stanley Kubrick film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Reportedly Pan Am received over 93,000 reservation requests for a service it had no prospect of beginning.

In 1969 Lt. Gen. Samuel C. Phillips, director of the NASA Apollo program, predicted that commercial space tourism would be available to healthy adventurers who could afford it by 1987. A year earlier, Barron Hilton began talking about building a hotel on the Moon and proposed a “space shuttle service” that would ferry passengers for a round-trip price of $1,500 (about $15,000 today), in addition to another $1,000 for two-week stays at the Lunar Hilton. The hotel was not a small beach bungalow either. One account had it with 5,000 rooms and its own private “ocean,” although details of its design were never forthcoming.

The idea did not die easily and as late as 1999, Hilton was reportedly considering a $25 billion space hotel in collaboration with 16 other groups. A two-week trip would initially cost $2 million per person, dropping to $415,000 by the fifth year. Without explanation this grand scheme quietly faded from sight.
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Early Ideas of Space Tourism

As much as I'd like to see it become reality I just don't see it happening in this crazy timeline era. It's all marketing fluff, especially when even Elon is doubting these space startups.

Just a repeat of Wernher von Braun. It will never happen. They have endless funding and motivation to keep that.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JJL8CUfF-o


Revelation of the methods from over 50 years ago.


Thirty-Minute Theatre: "The News Benders" (1968).

Given all the resurrected space hype from the re-emergence of psychedelics to Elon's brain implants this is probably as close as one will get to a space adventure...




All the world is a staged show.




White House: "There is no evidence of aliens or extraterrestrials with these recent take downs."

Twitter: "So you're saying ultraterrestrials, interdimensionals, lost Atlantean civilization and time travelers are still on the table!?"