Space Tourism Is Creating Luxurious Vacations
The Jetsons, a futuristic cartoon first captured the imaginations of Americans more than 60 years ago about life in space.
Now that fantasy may be closer to reality than you think.
Startup Orbital Assembly’s Pioneer Station is expected to begin circling Earth as soon as 2025 with its larger sister station Voyager poised to open just a few years later, according to the company.
Unlike the International Space Station, these will be commercial habitats – what the company calls business parks centered around offices and space tourism.
We’re looking at a number of different industries, large-scale manufacturing— tourism of course, and also just B2B services such as data processing and communications.
Giant spinning wheels in the sky for people to work and play in space. With gravity. Sitting at a restaurant, enjoying the view. Even playing basketball.
We’re building artificial gravity space stations which we believe are imperative to help— having people live for long periods of time in a healthy way on orbit.
Small by earthly real estate standards, Pioneer will hold 28 people at a time and have 14,000 cubic feet of space.
But as Orbital Assembly gets ready to enlist more investors and begin signing up tenants, it’s betting that this is just the beginning.
In the next few years, space– and people living and working in space is going to become just as commonplace as someone going down and working in a Starbucks.
