When will there be hotels on the moon ? Ive heard this isnt too far off?

Question

Does anyone know when il be able to go on holiday to the moon ? Ive heard there are plans for hotels in space and there are already over 2000 bookings at £100,000 a "night" (watever that is in space). I think NASA should get their *** into gear, i mean cmon its taken them nearly half a century to go back to the moon, nearly a century to go to put a man on mars. Just stop playing about with little robots and do something !

Answer 1

  They don't plan to start until after 2012,they could blow their money.

Answer 2

Um, you may never see them.  We will find as we slide down the oil depletion slope, that we have a lot better things to do with scarce energy than send people out into space.  Like grow food and build infrastructure to live without the stuff.

DK

Answer 3

I will try to give you a proper answer, and not a frivolous or sneering one.  Had you asked a European in 1491 whether people would build houses on a mythical land far to the West,  you would have got similar answers to those you've already been given.  When Mankind has ventured into any new areas,  holidays and tourism have always followed,  such as Disney,  California.  Colonizing the Moon is obviously not quite the same,  but is different only in degree.  I suspect just such hotels will be built,  and while it is difficult to put a time on it,  I'd guess at a couple of hundred years  (unless Hylton puts up the money!)

Answer 4

I heard this to, they said by 2050 the moon will be a place of clubs, hotels etc.

I will be quite old then.

Daniel.

Answer 5

I am opening an hotel on the moon on 22nd August 2009.

Most rooms have a scenic view of the Earth, but they are being booked fast.

If you wish to make a deposit for a room, please e-mail me.

Answer 6

I think you have your wires crossed a little. The £100,000 flight is most likely referring to Virgin Galactic where for the said amount of money you can have a sub-orbital flight into space. This may be available from late 2009 though this date may slip back a bit. Richard Branson has mentioned he would like to provide orbital flights around the Earth if technology is available at a realistic price and of course if it is safe. Perhaps in the further future 'space hotels' may become available to holiday in. Who Knows? Space Adventures have also been in talks with The Russia Space Agency about the possibility of a Soyuz craft offering paying customers a trip around the Moon. Time will tell.

Answer 7

are you serious? i honestly thought i would never be asked such strange question, but to answer it anyway - as soon as space suites are cheap and readily available i suppose.

Answer 8

At present, the cheapest cost to loft anything in low Earth orbit is in the order of $3000 a kg (that is about £1500). Multiply this by about 10 to reach the moon.

For an average person, this means around £1,200,000, and you go there with no luggage, no food, no water and no air (and for the spacecraft itself, you probably want to go traveling inside *something*, right?), so add a bit more to the bill if you care about breathing, and want to cater for fuel to come back.

At present, there is no rocket available able to bring someone to the moon and back, although some are on the drawing board.

The £100,000 a night is probably just a deposit (and who knows if whoever is taking them will come through with the goods in the next 20 years?). On the other hand, NASA's objective and mandate is to explore space and advance science, not to haul rich brats for vacation in space. They do not have the budget to cater for space tourism.

Answer 9

Look man has not been to the moon yet!  Don't believe what you were taught at school and read in the newspapers and seen on the tv,,  The answer is a NO