You can now reserve a hotel room on the Moon for $250,000
Ars Technica • • technology
Key Points:
- GRU Space, founded by recent UC Berkeley graduate Skyler Chan, announced plans to build a series of lunar habitats culminating in a hotel inspired by San Francisco’s Palace of the Fine Arts, with deposits for early lunar missions ranging from $250,000 to $1 million.
- Despite having only two full-time employees, GRU Space has received seed funding from Y Combinator and aims to demonstrate inflatable habitat technology and lunar resource utilization starting with a 2029 mission.
- The company envisions lunar tourism as the key commercial activity on the Moon, with an initial inflatable hotel planned for 2032 to accommodate up to four guests, followed by larger structures made from Moon bricks.
- Chan’s motivation stems from enabling broader human access to space
