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Space tourism: Jeff Bezos now also wants to build a hotel in space

2021-10-27T08:38:03.697Z


Jeff Bezos has ambitious plans. The Amazon founder wants to build a space hotel that is hardly smaller than the ISS. Companies should also be able to use them.


Jeff Bezos has ambitious plans.

The Amazon founder wants to build a space hotel that is hardly smaller than the ISS.

Companies should also be able to use them.

Kent - The space venture by private companies isn't going down well with everyone.

Prince William has criticized Elon Musk * and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos for their space tourism plans.

The Tesla * boss and the Amazon founder are in a real race into space with their companies SpaceX and Blue Origin.

Now Jeff Bezos * is literally taking it to the extreme.

Blue Origin plans to build a space station between 2025 and 2030, as the company announced on Monday (October 25).

The station, called Orbital Reef, is intended as a contact point for space tourists to offer space for up to ten people.

In addition, it should be able to be used by traders who, for example, want to carry out research in weightlessness.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin wants to build a space station in orbit: It will fly over the ISS

According to Blue Origin *, Orbital Reef will fly at an altitude of 500 kilometers, a little above the International Space Station ISS.

The ISS, which is operated by the US space agency NASA together with numerous partner agencies from around the world, is the largest and most durable space station to date.

It has been permanently inhabited by changing astronauts since 2000.

With a volume of 830 cubic meters, the Orbital Reef would be slightly smaller than the ISS.

Blue Origin has a powerful rocket with the New Shepard rocket.

The company only made a name for itself in mid-October when it launched Star Trek actor William Shatner into space *.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin wants to build a space station in orbit: Further projects are being planned

Blue Origin's other planned projects include a lunar module.

However, the company has lost the NASA moon contract to SpaceX *.

Virgin Galactic *, a company owned by British billionaire Richard Branson, also offers space flights.

* Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA

Source: merkur

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