Luxury Getaways of the Future: Visit Orbital Technologies' Space Hotel

Space sex may be the only way to get people excited about "deep space" ;)

Think about it, because of sex the Gutenberg press became wildly popular, the Polaroid camera drove camera technology, the VCR brought entertainment home, phone sex expanded phone coverage, and internet video enhanced data through put.

Space sex will sell and expand space technology.

Mmm, if you see my space ship a rock'en, please don't come a knock'en, lol.

Due to reduced gravity or the increase of the Suns radiation could this cause mutated DNA babies? Would the owner of this the space station pods force occupants to sign a waiver not to have sex? Of course humans being such as they are may anyway. I wonder what mutating STD viruses would grow in this facility and then be brought back to earth. Would there be a space maid service.

↑↑↑ agreed ^^

but if they drop the price at 10k (and make a softer "lift")
i would defenetly go ^^

They need to have 1000 of these modules, connnect them all together in the shape of a circle, and have it orbit the Earth while spinning...make it spin or rotate, whatever the term is, for artificial gravity. It also needs force fields, so deflect debris and radiation. Once you've got all these, then you've got yourself a space station. Each individual module should also have thrusters and solar panels. lol.

@D13, I read the last sentence of you comment and I have to disagree. My wife and I spoon all the time and bend it too.

It's wonderful to dream.

As much as I would love to go to space, I think it would get very boring after about 5 min of looking out the tiny window. you would be seeing the same view for 5 days, and who seriously is going to look out of the window the whole time? the rest of the time you're spending it in cramped quarters. I really feel humans do not belong in outer space.

One generations plants the trees, the next enjoys the shade.

There is a new clean very cheap energy technology: LENR using nickel and hydrogen. Using LENR, a gram of nickel yields an amazing 1.7 billion calories. It only takes about 7 million calories to launch a pound of mass up and out of the Earth's gravity well.

In other words, we are soon going to be routinely launching payloads into space. Thus this "space hotel" is probably going to be used more than even the designers thought.

By the way, expect Rossi to announce a 1 megawatt power plant to the market by November of this year. Google the E-Cat.

Ok I am sorry Popsci but nothing is going to beat Bigelow Aerospace!!!! Bigelow is already in the lead and no one is going to challenge their dominance in the space hotel industry and i mean no one!!!!! Just look up Bigelow Aerospace on wikepedia and do some of your own research. Space X is going to be the one to get Bigelow's habitats up into orbit.

And as for the dude talking about artificial gravity. What you are talking about is the Stanford Torus look that up on wikipedia as well please. Robert Bigelow, thats the name of the guy who heads Bigelow Aerospace. I was watching a vid on youtube of him giving a speech. He mentions Artificial gravity and yes he indeed supports it but he says its gonna take some time to build a rotating space station. I'd say by 2020 Bigelow will manage to build one of these rotating rings.

Once again popsci Im sorry but Bigelow Aerospace is currently in the lead and they're going to launch their first space station in 2014. We got Space X, Virgin Galactic, Bigelow, and good ol' NASA!!!! America is going to dominate the space race!!!!

I guess having each pod not connected would make it easier to maneuver... but if there were a large ring with all the chambers connected to it, with the ability to detach in case of emergancy, then patrons would have the ability to fly around the ring. They would have much better views, and even patronize a restaurant that could be built into it.

Of course this is just the first of its kind folks. There will be more. Once stupid Donald Trump figures out how to put a hotel on the moon, we'll be stopping there next.

~S

@drinny26

Humans also don't belong in clothing, dwelling in artificial creations, automobiles or horse driven carriages, flying through the air, or floating on water. With that logic, humans should not be anything beyond cave dwelling, gutteral grunting, hunter-gatherers.

We were destined to flourish beyond this world or perish the moment the first ancestrial primate that eventually led to this form stood upright and designed a tool with a sophisticated function.

The idea is not to be in space long term. The idea is to expand through space to other worlds long term. Got survive in the void before you can reach new land. That was the reasoning of the first sailors to journey across the vast oceans.

@RayKurzweil

Yes, Bigelow will get there first, but the company is not building modules for hotels but modules that can be occupied by paying customers in a hotel like service. Bigelow is building a commercial space station for scientific research much like the ISS.

Besides, as long as Orbital Technologies actually gets there then all is right with the future. Regardless of who's first we need more private ventures into space. Gives other people the chance besides the privileged few.

How and who is going to clean the room, bathroom and kitchen? For $165K, I would be wanting a sparkling clean POD with clean linen!

I suppose this creates the opportunity for developing a space hotel cleaning business. Would you send up a cleaner with the guest each time? Or will there be some kind of robotic cleaner?

Yes, this is the future...get this thing up and running ASAP. If anything I'm going up when I retire.

@Aldrons Last Hope, If you go up and plan the timing just right, you can see Apophis, the 50 million-ton asteroid that actually might come close enough to Earth to warrant an end-of-the-world scare sometime in 2029. Imagine if it hits earth, you be in your little space hotel and the only earthling left alive. That is if it does not hit you on the way in to earth. I think you better plan your reservation now! Then again, if everyone on earth is gone, who will fly up to the hotel and bring you back to earth, hmmm? Well, you decide.

@Aldrons Last Hope. I had another thought. If you are staying in this hotel the time frame as Apophis fly's by earth, maybe you space hotel craft will feel the gravitational influence of this gigantic asteroid and pull you out of orbit and be sent off deep, deep into space..... Or a space rock will fly off Apophis and hit your craft and decompress your units caviety, and you will pop like a hot dog in a microwave.

What will you do?

@BubbaGump...I don't think I will be retired in 2029, so that's a non-issue. But obviously I'll wait until 100 launches...if there are no fatalities, then I'll have to assume it's safe.

But yeah the price should come down from the 165K by then....same with Virgin, they are booking flights right now for 200K, that's sure to come down, and if all of these companies form partnerships, maybe I can purchase an all-inclusive package on the "cheap"

This is truly amazing to me, when I was in college I thought there was no way I'd ever see space first hand, and now it's just out of reach....hopefully in 30 years it will be within my grasp. Definitely something to look forward too.

As far as bursting like a hotdog. We all have to die, might as well die doing something you love.

@Aldrons Last Hope, I believe Apophis fly's by earth in the year 2036 too. That's if its not on a collion course with earth. So you have many chances to be space born in your hotel in the future and watch it fly by or blunder to our earth! Perhaps humans will create the space elevator power by lasers or microwaves to bring you to this space hotel on the cheap as well! ;)

@BubbaGump, well I'm banking on capitalism. If these companies want people to spend $$ on space tourism, they will have to make it safe.

@Aldrons Last Hope, Imagine you ride a space elevator power by microwaves or lasers to you space hotel. Once you arrive you are then given a nudge towards the moon. After your week travel to the moon you are retrieved by a moon retrieval lander and brought to the surface. You hotel unit will be attach to others and you can join the community and help mine Helium3 for earth. After a few years you return back to earth, a rich man and learn to acclimate to the earth again, and then retire.

@@BubbaGump, yes I realize that there will be different sectors involved in space. Military, Educational, Mining H3, maybe one day colonization….for me I’m going (fingers crossed) for tourism. Space elevator would be cool, they don’t have materials strong enough yet to make this, with the development of meta materials..maybe one day this will be possible. But for future generations, there will be many people rushing t space to make their fortune, just as the gold rush settled up the west, H3 will open up the moon.

For many years I deal with the new projects for the space colonization.
There are my new projects for space hotels creation:

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All my structures can be found at the page "Space Architecture" in "Wikimedia Commons".

What do you think about them?

Russian engineer, Sergey Makarov
(Undependent researcher SEGRIM)