Orion Span, a startup that launched 07-04-18 wants to offer luxury accommodations in space for 12- day trips at a going rate of $9.5 million.
"We're proud to announce Aurora Station-our first orbital community- will launch in late 2021as the world's first luxury space hotel. By early 2022 we will be hosting tourists, astronauts, space research, and manufacturing on board Aurora Station in LEO [low Earth orbit]" says CEO Frank Bunger in an introductory blog post.
The company will not be in the rocket business and plans to rely on others
to get their customers into orbit. "That will be through partnerships with SpaceX, Blue Origin or a space agency," Bunger says in an interview with Space News. Similarly, the company plans to find a partner when looking for a place to launch its modules.
