Students Design Space Hotel

Swanky Space Hotel Concept Revealed
Space.com

A robot concierge, a redesigned showerhead and a full-sensory exercise wall are just part of the Space Hotel Project created by master’s degree students in a program hosted by Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art in the UK. The concept could theoretically attach to the International Space Station, so long as the growing space outpost remains in orbit.

“From personal hygiene to sleeping in zero gravity, we encouraged the students to be completely creative with their solutions so that the living conditions in the world’s most isolated hotel could be as comfortable as possible,” said Daniele Bedini, a space architecture expert who has worked for NASA and the European Space Agency on moon and Mars base designs.

The new space hotel concept includes a rigid module similar to Europe’s Columbus laboratory on the space station, as well as an inflatable sphere developed by Thales Alenia Space in Italy.

Bedini told SPACE.com that the space hotel could be built tomorrow with today’s existing structures and technologies. He compared the process to luxury airlines buying an airplane structure and personalizing the interior.

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