VOYAGER STATION

Subject : Science & tech

Context : One big discovery this year was the announcement to open the first hotel in space, named Voyager Station, in 2027.

Concept :

Orbital Assembly Corporation (OAC), the company behind the ambitious project, recently unveiled new details about the resort, and the images and videos have created a huge buzz online.
The one-of-its-kind luxury hotel named Voyager Station will be able to accommodate 400 people and will offer unprecedented views of our planet for tourists and researchers.
A journey to the outer space will no longer be limited to just astronauts. Moving beyond the plot of a sci-fi film, people can now plan a vacation outside the Earth as world’s first space hotel will soon be a reality.
And by 2027, space enthusiasts can literally have an out-of-the-world experience as the interstellar resort will be operational. However, it stresses that only a selected few can have this lifetime experience, and a trip to space “cost up to $25 million”.
The concept of Voyager Station was ideated in 2012 with the launch of the Gateway Foundation which established OAC in 2018 to realise the dream of building the first commercial hotel in space.