The Voyager Space Station or Voyager Station is a proposed
rotating wheel space station
A rotating wheel space station, also known as a von Braun wheel, is a concept for a hypothetical wheel-shaped space station. Originally proposed by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1903, the idea was expanded by Herman Potočnik in 1929.
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, planned to start construction in 2026. The space station aims to be the first commercial space hotel.
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Space tourism is human space travel for recreational purposes. There are several different types of space tourism, including orbital, suborbital and lunar space tourism.
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to the Voyager Station, which would accommodate 280 guests and 112 crew members. The cost of a trip to the station has not been officially published, but some estimates are that it would be approximately US$5 million, and would require the passengers to undergo safety and physical training before boarding the shuttle for a day trip to the space station.
The cost of the space station has been estimated to be in the "tens of billions".
With Orbital Assembly now aiming to launch two space stations, Voyager Station is scheduled to accommodate 400 people and to open in 2027, while the smaller, new concept Pioneer Station can house only 28 people, but can be operational from 2025.
Voyager Station would have partial artificial gravity from its rotation to maintain Gravitation of the Moon, lunar gravity—approximately of Earth's gravity.
See also
* Aurora Space Station
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Mars One
Mars One was a small private Dutch organization that received money from investors by claiming it would use it to land the first humans on Mars and leave them there to establish a permanent human colony. From its announcement in 2012 to its ...
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List of space stations
Past stations
These stations have re-entered the atmosphere and disintegrated.
The Soviet Union ran two programs simultaneously in the 1970s, both of which were called Salyut program, Salyut publicly. The Long Duration Orbital Station (DOS ...
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Proposed hotels
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