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The Aurora Space Station was a technology concept for a private commercial space station in low Earth orbit that was announced on 5 March 2018 by Orion Span, a startup aerospace company in
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. The concept envisions a capacity of six people: two crew and four tourists. No launch contract has been signed for deployment of the modules nor crewed vehicles,Startup announces plans for low-cost commercial space station
Jeff Foust, ''SpaceNews'' 5 April 2018 and its construction has not started, but its representatives claimed it would be launched in 2021. In March 2021 the website announced that they had shut down operations and refunded all deposits.


Overview

Frank Bunger, the founder and CEO of Orion Span, stated that the Aurora Station would offer to
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s a 12-day stay for US$9.5 million. He said that the design concept is such that the station would not require extravehicular activities (spacewalks) for assembly and operation. Orion Span plans to design, test and build the station in
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. The company has yet to sign a launch contract, but stated that this commercial station would be deployed in
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in 2021, and start to receive passengers in 2022. Bunger said that travelers will be required to complete a three-month training program before launch. Guests would be able to free-float, look out windows, practice
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, and play in a ' hologram deck'.This luxury space hotel could be up and running in four years
''NBC News'' 5 April 2018


See also

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Mir ''Mir'' (russian: Мир, ; ) was a space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, operated by the Soviet Union and later by Russia. ''Mir'' was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to&n ...
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NewSpace Private spaceflight is spaceflight or the development of spaceflight technology that is conducted and paid for by an entity other than a government agency. In the early decades of the Space Age, the government space agencies of the Soviet Uni ...
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Space tourism Space tourism is human space travel for recreational purposes. There are several different types of space tourism, including orbital, suborbital and lunar space tourism. During the period from 2001 to 2009, seven space tourists made eight s ...
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Bigelow Commercial Space Station The Bigelow Next-Generation Commercial Space Station was a private orbital space station under conceptual development by Bigelow Aerospace in the 2000s and 2010s. Previous concepts of the space station had included multiple modules such as two ...


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