For that special occasion
You prefer to plan ahead—we like that about you. What’s more, you’re not sold on any of the current space tourist options and you’re convinced that the future will have plenty more to offer. For sure, you want more 2001: A Space Odyssey in your life and less Apollo 13. If you’re willing to wait about 10 years or so, then we have the perfect idea for you: space hotels.
Axiom Space is planning to build the world’s first all-private space station, which it wants to make available for commercial interests later this decade. That’s a good choice, but other options could start to appear by the early 2030s; NASA has asked three U.S. companies, Blue Origin, Nanoracks, and Northrop Grumman, to develop private space station concepts as well. Space hotels are coming; you’ll just have to be patient and save a few tens of millions of dollars for the likely expense.
