Can't find any destinations on Earth for your next holiday? Lucky for you, a Californian company wants to make it possible to take a vacation in space by building hotel in orbit(轨道).
The Orbital Assembly Corporation plans to build Voyager Station, a space hotel that includes rooms for tourists, in 2026, and open it in 2027. It will be able to carry up to 400 people.
The space hotel will be shaped like a large wheel, with 24 space pods(舱) around the outside of the 200-meter-wide structure. Each pod is 24 meters long and 12 meters wide. The pods will be used for restaurants, bars, gyms, rooms for tourists, laboratories for research and so on.
The company says that some pods will even be private homes that people can buy.
"Eventually, going to space will just be another option(选择) people will choose for their vacation, just like going on a cruise(航行), or going to Disney World ," said Tim Alatorre, senior architect(建筑师) of the space hotel. He said that the space hotel may even include a concert hall and a movie theater.
The company says that the space hotel will have gravity that is about one-sixth as strong as Earth's. The low gravity means people can do things like jump higher, lift heavier things and enjoy sports such as basketball in a new way.
