Commercial Space Hotel - Habitation Testbed Architecture and Logistics
2003-01-2656
07/07/2003
- Event
- Content
- Space tourists spent $20m/trip per orbital adventure, but lacked commercial accommodations/transportation. Goal: seven days/six nights for $6m/guest. Alternative habitation testbed designs are proposed, but the business key is technical cooperation between government/industry to get financing. Interiors must be financable, safe, pleasing, functional, washable, technically effective, affordable and redundant. The economics must approach orders of magnitude less than ISS cost/CF. Like casinos, expanding uses profits to satisfy a growing market demand. America can do this now with ingenuity, entrepreneurial innovation and government technical help in a testbed capable of jump starting the aerospace/tourist industry.
- Pages
- 21
- Citation
- Taylor, T., Gimarc, A., and Favata', P., "Commercial Space Hotel - Habitation Testbed Architecture and Logistics," SAE Technical Paper 2003-01-2656, 2003, https://doi.org/10.4271/2003-01-2656.