The startup Galactic Resource Utilization Space (GRU) has launched a website to take reservations for a hotel on the moon. No, the hotel is not on the moon yet, but the plan is to have it in place by 2032. Availability dates will be subject to transportation, and of course, whether the hotel is ever built. Or we should say, installed, because it's going to be an inflatable structure. It will hold up to four people for multi-day vacations, which may include sightseeing, driving, and golf.
GRU is the brainchild of Skyler Chan, a 21-year-old Berkeley graduate, who has enlisted tech investors such as SpaceX and Nvidia. A big chunk of money is expected from the guests, though. Reservations range from $250,000 to $1 million, depending on the vacation package. What's in those packages? Who knows- it costs $1,000 just to apply for a reservation. (via Nag on the Lake)
Friday, January 16, 2026
A Hotel on the Moon?
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Radiation on the moon's surface is ~200 times that here on earth...
So maybe an underground hotel, or something that's not using an air mattress for construction!
What's Skyler a graduate in?
A thousand bucks – non-refundable, no doubt – to merely APPLY for space, sometime in the future, for space in a hotel that has yet to be erected in a location that, since the beginning of time, only twelve people have ever been to? I've seen gullible people in my day, but boy-oh-boy, they need to create a new word to describe anybody who signs up for this.
-"BB"-
According to the linked article, he's a graduate in electrical engineering and computer sciences.
Oh, found it - 'electrical engineering and computer sciences'. That alone... speaks volumes.
I admire the chutzpah, but I'm annoyed that this will leach customers away from taking their $50 non-refundable bookings for my habitation complex on Callisto.
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