However, the current situation is that the Virgin Galactic spacecraft, known as the cheapest space flight service, costs $250,000 per person to enjoy it. For most ordinary people, even if they want to stay in a space hotel, they have no economic foundation, which can be said to be more than enough.
According to the Orbital Assembly Company (OAC), the world's first near-earth space hotel is currently in the stage of "drawing a pie" and will start construction in 2025, which marks the beginning of the space construction industry. So what exactly is the hotel like? Who else can live in it? Let's take a closer look.
What will this space hotel look like? The most striking thing is the appearance of this hotel, which reminds me of the scene in the movie "A Space Odyssey: 20 1 1", where a huge wheel rotates in the universe.
The following picture shows the movie scene of A Space Odyssey: 20 1 1:
The following picture shows the design of the space hotel:
As we all know, when a car turns a corner, we will be thrown out by a force, which is due to the centrifugal force brought by rotation.
In space, the gravity of the earth can be ignored, and people are floating in the air. By rotating the space hotel, people standing on it will feel centrifugal force, which acts like the gravity of the earth, which can be described as artificial gravity of the earth.
In fact, the idea of rotating space station was first put forward by Werner wernher von braun, one of the pioneers in the space industry, in the 1950s. This film and OAC borrowed from Werner wernher von braun's ideas!
The gravity of a space hotel is only 1/6 of that of the earth. Why not completely simulate the gravity of the earth? Because if all the gravity of the earth is simulated, what's the point of human going into space?
The following picture shows the idea of playing basketball in low gravity:
Considering the special circumstances, this space hotel is also equipped with a "lifeboat". In case of danger, passengers can take the following 44 "lifeboats" to return to Earth, in which the flight and landing of the "lifeboats" are automatically controlled by the program.
Who can go up and live? If ordinary people want to go, what are the ways? OAC plans to build a hotel in 2027. It has 24 living spaces with an area of over 65,438+065,438+0,600 square meters. It will accommodate 280 guests and 1 12 crew members, which can meet the needs of people living, working, playing and eating on it.
Our concern is who can live there? Under normal circumstances, ordinary people have to go through the process of riding a rocket when they go into space, and they are familiar with the microgravity environment, so training is necessary.
In addition, according to the price given by OAC, a holiday in space for about 3.5 days will cost at least $5 million. So only those who can pass the training and have the ability to pay at least $5 million have the opportunity to go up.
From this perspective, this is almost beyond the reach of ordinary people, such as me.
Questioning the Space Hotel: Another armchair strategist? As early as 20 18, Orion Span company of the United States declared that it would cost at least 9.5 million dollars to launch a luxury space hotel-Aurora Station in 20021year and stay at Aurora Station for 12 days, so it was out of reach of ordinary people.
At present, the distance from 202 1 has not ended, but as of the beginning of May, there is still no news of Aurora Station.
It is not the first time that the "gimmick" of the space hotel has appeared. In 20 10, American galaxy suites co., ltd announced that it would launch the space resort in 20 12. Ordinary people can stay for three nights for only $4.4 million, and more than 200 people have paid for it. A billionaire also raised $3 billion to fund the project.
If completed, tourists will travel around the world in 90 minutes and watch the sunrise 15 times every 24 hours. Now it seems that it is undoubtedly "an armchair strategist".
At present, it is still difficult to determine whether OAC can build a space hotel in 2025, but I personally think it is not optimistic. Let's wait and see.