This is what happens when you have too many billionaires.
Everest has been turned into a run-of-the-mill tourist attraction. Space tourism is over now that any celebrity can blast off into orbit. Next up: a hotel on the Moon, now taking reservations for only about six years from now, if you’re willing to make a small deposit.
For the low, low deposit cost of either $250,000 or $1 million, depending on the option selected, you can get in on the inflatable ground floor of GRU’s definitely-going-to-happen inflatable Moon hotel, which it said it wants to have deployed by 2032.
Don’t expect to foot the bill of a private five-day lunar expedition for you and up to three others for the meager deposit cost, though.
“Final pricing has not yet been determined will likely exceed $10 million,” the company states on its reservation website. Yes, we know that sentence is missing either a coordinating conjunction or some critical punctuation. Cut GRU a break - it’s too busy brainstorming Moon hotels to run its website copy through a grammar checker.
Odds are that they’ll go bankrupt, but eventually someone will make that business model work. Hopefully one of them burns VC money on something useful and makes lunar surface research or materials a little cheaper for others.