Is it possible to have space hotel in the near future?

Wouldn't be nice to have space hotel in 21st century. Because it would be a great place for loner like me. Flying above the Earth atmosphere myself.

Maybe in your lifetime if you are young.

Well, the definite answer can only be found in the future. At this point we can only speculate.

But my speculation is yes. I come to this conclusion by looking at our past. It has been just over 100 years ago that man learned to fly. Just last week the new Airbus A380 made its first commercial flight and this baby can transport more than 500 people. Within 100 years flying has went from a theoretical possibility to something almost as common as taking a bus.

Only 50 years ago Sputnik was launched. Until than space was still one big frontier. Within 50 years we have set foot on the moon, shot thousands of satellites around our planet, that do anything from examining the weather or measuring other things to relaying broadcast like TV phone or data. We have a permanent presence in space: ISS, which already has had it's first tourists.

Virgin has founded a company for space tourism: Virgin Space.

All this gives me the distinct impression that it's just a matter of time. Unless something goes terrible wrong and the project is put on hold, I think it's going to happen.

Another point I would like to make is, that besides the fact that it is technically feasible to do it, there is also an economical one: there are people that are willing to pay a large amount of money for this trip. So there is money to be made and this will encourage companies like Virgin to research and develop the means that are necessary for such a mission.

It would be a helluva view, that's for sure. But before you could get a hotel, you'd need some people to colonize that part of space. You especially need plenty of people there to do the usual hotel work of room service, house keeping, etc.

The project itself would be enough of a problem to find funding for any keep going. The amount for a night's stay would have to be ridiculously expensive. They just started making zero-gravity trips (where they take people in a high-atmosphere rocket to experience weightlessness) commercially available, for several grand. Hotels aren't coming too soon.

I heard that if possible, space shuttles in space would be conducive enough for humans to live in. So then they can convert these space shuttles into hotels or even houses. But it's gonna be really costly to ship food and supplies and maintainance...

Yup, scientists have proved that in the future, they can develop space hotels and even space towns in the planets or places that are possible to inhabit.

I am pretty sure that virgin already has designs and plans for a space hotel in later decades. They already have space tourism flights and i know that they are working on a space hotel.

You can call it "The Vomit" or "Vertigo Plaza Hotel". Sounds like just the place to be to get a healthy greenish-gray tint and to lose weight (everyone goes to 0 lbs. as soon as they arrive!).

As for the loner fantasy... you will really enjoy having a phone booth size room for yourself and using that private suction cup in the "toilet", especially after the guy who couldn't quite figure out how to do it right and left that yellowish spray cloud.

Oh... and then the shared hundred cubic meters of common room... cramped with 12 people at a time... just the place to be "alone".

;-)

It depends on how you think a space hotel should be. In a way, the ISS now can be a space hotel already. It has toilets, food, water, bed, TV... and you can stay there quite long times. Anh it's expensive of course.

yeas it would, but we would all die because of global warming efore it happens. sorry.