A Company Is Planning To Launch A Space Hotel Which Might Be The Dumbest Idea Ever
(Travel And Leisure)–The Von Braun Rotating Space Station will likely be the first commercial space station in history. It is due to be completed in 2025, and some people are already calling it the first space hotel in history.
Alatorre spoke to Dezeen about the design for the space station, making it sound like the world’s most futuristic and luxurious getaway. The station will have “many of the things you see on cruise ships: restaurants, bars, musical concerts, movie screenings, and educational seminars,” Alatorre said.Hotel visitors will have fancier technology than what’s on board the International Space Station (ISS). Space tourists will have toilets and showers that function more like what’s on Earth. Drinking water will be brought from our planet and non-potable water will be recycled throughout the station.
First things first…naming the first ever space hotel after Wernher Von Braun is VERY problematic. Sure, he was a great scientist. Really helped the United States space program get of the ground, literally, in the 1950s and 60s. He was also a Nazi. Not the “hey, I really don’t like Hillary so I guess I’ll vote for Trump” type of “Nazi”. I mean a real Nazi. The holocausting kind of Nazi.
There’s been lots of great rocket scientists and astronauts over the years. I don’t know, maybe pick one that wasn’t one linked the destruction of Europe and a genocide. That’s just one blogger’s opinion though. The thing is set to be ready in 2025 so they still have time.
The images do look pretty sweet
Pretty sweet bedrooms with earth side views about half the time. That’s good.
It spins around while you’re in space so you got some simulated gravity.
Only 24 rooms in the entire hotel and…you’re in fucking outer space so it’s exclusive.
Here is the problem. Once you dock, get to your room, put your bags down, look out the windown and go “WOW!! Earth is beautiful! And so ROUND!”. Then what? That’s it. You’ve exhausted your entertainment options on the world’s Solar System’s shittiest cruise. You’re not seeing the sights. There’s only one site, singular. After 5 minutes or so you’re just going to be sitting there in a hotel room looking at your wife wondering if you should try to join the 240 mile high club or look for the front desk number to see if there’s free wifi in space so you can watch Netflix in space. Literally the only thing they have that sounds somewhat cool is basketball with less gravity. So you MIGHT be able to know what it feels like to dunk, but realistically you’d probably just do that thing where you finger roll it in and the try to grab the rim and say you dunked. You’re going to get shitty space food, be bored out of your skull, and pay a gazillion dollars just so you can do an instagram post that says “I love you to the moon and back” with your significant other. Barf. Hard space on the Space cruise. I’ll just watch Apollo 13 on my couch instead.