The luxury space hotel

Guests will be able to enjoy the exhilaration of zero gravity, gaze at the northern and southern aurora through the many windows and soar over their hometowns

A US-based company, Orion Span, will shortly be launching a space hotel.

The 35ft-by-14ft spacecraft is big enough to accommodate four travellers and two crew members for 12-day stays 200 miles above the earth.

However, guests will be charged $9.5m (£6.7m) each or about $791,666 (£561,300) a night.

 

According to Orion Span, the historically 24-month training regimen to prepare travellers to visit a space station will be streamlined to three months, at a fraction of the cost.

Customers are expected to return to Earth understanding basic spaceflight, orbital mechanics and life in pressurized environments in space, the company said.