21 Jan 2020

Von Braun Space Station (Space Hotel) by Gateway Foundation | Hotel in Space | Von Braun Wheel

World's first Space Hotel with Artificial Gravity will be in orbit by 2025. The Gateway Foundation is building a space hotel named as Von Braun Space Station, which is based on the concepts of an American rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun. Robots and drones will be used to assemble the hotel in the orbit itself. It is expected that first ever space hotel will be operational by 2025.
The shape of the space hotel will be like an enormous wheel having a diameter of 623 feet. The wheel shaped giant space hotel will rotate slowly to generate a gravitational force. The Hotel will have 24 individual modules with sleeping and support facilities. These individual modules will be spread around the wheel on three decks. The space hotel would be able to accommodate about 400 people in total.


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Actually the Von Braun Space Station would be made of two rotating concentric rings which would provide artificial Gravity one sixth as strong as Earth's. The Artificial gravity will provide the sense of direction and orientation and it would be easy to perform the basic tasks like walking, eating food, going to a toilet and showering, the way we are used to on Earth.
“Eventually Going to space will just be another option people will pick for their vacation, just like going on a cruise, or going to Disney World.” Tim Alatorre, senior design architect of Von Braun Space Station said in an interview with Dezeen.
Here it is interesting to note that Wernher Von Braun, the man behind the first space hotel, was a top Nazi rocket scientist who developed the infamous V2 rocket. He was taken in by NASA after the war. There he became a famous American scientist.
According to Tim Alatorre, the senior design architect of Von Braun Space Station, the space hotel will be something like a cruise ship. It will have many of the things you see on cruise ships: Restaurants, bars, musical concerts, movie screenings, and educational seminars." just in space.
As the demand for such vacations in space grows, the gateway Foundation intends to build bigger space stations. They call the next class of space station  "The gateway". It would have the capacity to accommodate more than 1400 people in total.

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