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FEATURE - Das erste Weltraumhotel der Welt rückt näher
Ferrari Press Agency
Space station 1
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01/03/2021
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Work is due to start on a prototype of the world's first space hotel.The circular construction looks like the space station featured in Stanley Kubrick 1968 movies 2001:A Space Odyssey.It will slowly revolve providing artificial gravity similar to that found on the Moon, for occupantsThe hotel , called Voyager Station, will be constructed in low Earth from pre-fabricated parts.It would orbit the Earth every 90 minutes.Shuttle spacecraft between the Earth and Moon would also be able to dock.The team behind , the US-based Orbital Assembly Corporation known as OAC, hopes to have it up and running by 2027.Work has now started on the small scale replica which will be fixed together in space.The real thing will have a restaurants, cinema, spa , gym , concert hall and rooms for up to 400 people.The accommodation and amenities are in 24 pods each measuring 20 metre by 12 metre with u to three floors in each , fitted around the frame.Some of could be sold to organisations such as US space agency NASA and Europe’s equivalent, the ESA as well as private companies and governments.
OPS: Render of how the Voyager Station will look.Passenger ship docking
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