First space hotel due to open its doors to guests in just five years – The Mirror

The project is being run by the Gateway Foundation, who have said that the hotel will feature a range of low-gravity activities which are not possible while on Earth

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The first ever space hotel is due to open its doors to guests in just five years time, it has been announced.

Plans for the luxury cruise ship style station include a rotating structure which will simulate gravity around its edges.

The accommodation will float above Earth's atmosphere, providing guests with low-gravity activities which are not possible on Earth's surface, the Daily Star reports.

Its structure would be made up of 24 modules which will be connected together via elevator shafts.

The whole station, set to open in 2022, would resemble a wheel, that would rotate in order to simulate gravity.

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Company Gateway Foundation is part of the project, which began in 2019 when the project was called the Von Braun Station.

Since then the futuristic hotel has been named Voyager Station and is being built by Orbital Assembly Corporation.

The construction company, which focuses on gravity-enabled structures, plans on unveiling the hotel in the next few years.

Senior design architect at the Gateway Foundation Tim Alatorre told CNN : "The station rotates, pushing the contents of the station out to the perimeter of the station, much in the way that you can spin a bucket of water.

"The water pushes out into the bucket and stays in place."

Mr Alatorre also said the company was hoping to bring a slice of Earth to outer space.

He added: "We're going to have a number of different recreation activities and games that'll highlight the fact that you're able to do things that you can't do on Earth.

"Because of the weightlessness and the reduced gravity, you'll be able to jump higher, be able to lift things, be able to run in ways that you can't on Earth."

The company's former pilot John Blincow told the publication that right now is a significant time for space travel.

He concluded: "We're trying to make the public realise that this golden age of space travel is just around the corner. It's coming. It's coming fast."

It's unclear how much the accommodation will be, but it definitely won't be cheap.

The Gateway Foundation said they eventually want to make the hotel similar to a "trip to Disneyland".

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