Space Hotels Are Coming: How Much For A Room?

A night in the Empathy Suite at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas will set you back around $100,000, making it the most expensive hotel room in the world. But is this record about to be broken? The Bigelow Commercial Space Station is set to open to paying customers within the decade, and its prices are truly out of this world. So, how much will a night aboard this world-first cost?

One of the most difficult obstacles to overcome when constructing a space station is the limitation on size, an issue created by maximum payloads on expensive rocket launches. However, Bigelow Aerospace seem to have found an exciting solution to this.

Founded by American businessman Robert Bigelow in 1998, Bigelow Aerospace specialises in the development and manufacturing of expandable space station habitats. These expandable habitats are tightly packed atop a rocket for launch, then enlarged and fully deployed once in space, meaning that considerably larger space stations can be established for a fraction of the comparative cost.

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Image Credits: Bigelow Aerospace, Bloomberg, Dezeen, SpaceX, Jeff Scheid/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Virgin Galactic, Axiom Space, Twitter: @KerbalSpaceP

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