세계 최초 인공 중력 우주호텔...2025년 개관 예정 VIDEO: World’s First Space Hotel Will Have Artificial Gravity and Open in 2025
World’s First Space Hotel Will Have Artificial Gravity and Open in 2025
By Jessica Stewart on September 4, 2019
Yet another organization is making strides toward helping ordinary citizens spend time in outer space. The Gateway Foundation has announced plans to build the world’s first space hotel, with an aim to have 100 tourists per week by 2025. Named after controversial rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, who was affiliated with the Nazi party early in his career and later went on to serve as director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, the Von Braun Space Station will be assembled on-site by robots and drones.
세계 최초 인공 중력 우주호텔...2025년 개관 예정
폰 브라운 우주호텔 게이트웨이 재단은 2025년까지 매주 100명의 관광객을 유치하는 것을 목표로 세계 최초의 우주 호텔 건립 계획을 발표했다. 논란이 되고 있는 로켓 과학자 Wernher von Braun의 이름을 따서 명명된 이 우주 정거장은 나사의 마셜 우주 비행 센터의 책임자로 일하면서 로봇과 드론에 의해 현장에서 조립될 것이다. 디자이너 팀 알라토레는 1950년대에 묘사된 폰 브라운의 개념에 영감을 받았다. 이 우주 호텔은 623피트(187m) 직경에 걸쳐 있고 중력을 발생시키기 위해 천천히 회전하는 거대한 바퀴 모양으로 만들어질 것이다. 24개의 가압된 꼬투리가 바퀴의 바깥쪽 고리에 점점이 찍혀 있다. 이 상호연결된 모듈에는 개인 거주지뿐만 아니라 호텔 방, 그리고 스테이션의 승무원을 위한 별도의 숙소가 포함될 것이다. 몇몇 모듈은 연구 센터로 사용하기를 원하는 정부에도 판매될 것이다. 이 공간은 휴양지 역할을 하고 있기 때문에 손님들도 편의시설을 기대할 수 있다. 술집, 식당, 체육관 등의 계획으로 방문객들은 외지에 있어도 잘 먹고 건강하게 지낼 수 있다. 본 브라운 우주정거장은 국제우주정거장의 기술을 바탕으로 설계자들이 하고 있는 몇 가지 특정한 선택 덕분에 집에서 편안하게 느낄 수 있는 약 400명의 영구적인 거주자를 찾고 있다. 이 호텔은 달의 중력을 시뮬레이션 할 것이며, 인공 중력을 가진 최초의 역이 될 것이며, 여러분의 소지품이 공중에 날아다니지 않도록 할 것이다. 황기철 콘페이퍼 에디터 큐레이터 Ki Chul Hwang, conpaper editor, curator |
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Designer Tim Alatorre was inspired by concepts von Braun described in the 1950s. The space hotel will be shaped like an enormous wheel that spans a 623-foot diameter and slowly rotates to generate a gravitational force. Twenty-four pressurized pods dot the outer ring of the wheel. These interconnected modules will include private residences, as well as hotel rooms and separate quarters for the station’s crew working. Several modules will also be sold to governments that wish to use them as research centers.
Since this space is serving as a vacation destination, guests can also expect amenities. There are plans for bars, restaurants, and a gym so that visitors will be able to eat well and stay fit even if they’re in outer space. By building on the technology of the International Space Station, the Von Braun Space Station is looking to have a permanent population of about 400 residents who will feel right at home thanks to some specific choices the designers are making. The hotel will simulate lunar gravity, making it the first station of its kind to have artificial gravity and ensuring that your belongings won’t be flying around in the air.
There’s also been careful attention paid to the interiors, with the designers shying away from a minimalist, futuristic look in favor of warmth and comfort. “In the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick’s Space Station 5 is a sterile, white, museum-like hotel. While it made for a clearly futuristic feeling in the movie, in reality, it wasn’t a very inviting space. As humans, we innately connect to natural materials and colors,” Alatorre tells Dezeen. “Developments in material science now allow for lightweight, easily cleanable natural material substitutes for stone and wood that would normally not be feasible to bring into orbit. The use of fabrics, warm-colored lighting and paints, and materials with texture, all help us to connect and feel at home.”
It’s an exciting time in history for space travel, with organizations like the Gateway Foundation and Space X looking at how to make these opportunities open to everyone. Alatorre is confident that we’re on the brink of a breakthrough that will see more and more people rocketing into space.
“Eventually, going to space will just be another option people will pick for their vacation, just like going on a cruise, or going to Disney World,” he predicts.
The Von Braun Space Station is the world’s first space hotel.
Set to open in 2025, the hotel hopes to host 100 curious space travelers a week.
Warm interiors help ground the space, which will have artificial gravity.
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All images via the Gateway Foundation.
