"That's what a startup called GRU Space - the letters apparently stand for "Galactic Resource Utilization" - is offering to would-be vacationers after the company opened its website for online reservations this week, as reported by Ars Technica. If all goes to according to plan, the first truly one-star hotel will start accommodating guests in the 2030s. It all sounds pretty far fetched,"
"In a white paper published on the GRU Space website, Chan lays out the company's ambitious goals that goes beyond being a mere lunar hotelier. The company will initially build a hotel, then start constructing a Moon base and other important infrastructure for a human colony. Eventually, GRU would function like a space-faring version of the Hudson Bay Company, the storied fur-trading enterprise that was established in 1670"
GRU Space, short for Galactic Resource Utilization, opened reservations for a proposed Moon hotel requiring initial deposits between $250,000 and $1 million. The company projects guest stays beginning in the 2030s. The team currently has only two full-time employees, including founder Skyler Chan, and has secured seed funding from Y Combinator. Initial hardware plans envision an inflatable structure sent to the lunar surface in 2029 to test habitability. Long-term goals include constructing a Moon base and broader infrastructure, with ambitions to operate as a space-faring equivalent of the Hudson Bay Company.
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