The aim is to get the hotel off the ground by 2025 and make it fully operational for travel by 2027. The Von Braun station is just one such space-based tourism option in development.

The Von Braun Station is also not the only space hotel design in the works. Earlier in 2019, US-based space tech startup Orion Span released plans for a luxury space hotel called Aurora Station ...

These are larger than the Bigelow 330 meters which has a length of 16.88 meters and a diameter 6.7 meters. Each Von Braun module is about 8000 cubic meters. The full Von Bruan Station is about 240,000 ...

Set to have the first 100 people on board by 2025 and be fully complete by 2027, the company said the Von Braun Station is designed to give tourists “the feel of home” with luxury suites ...

And, it could be finished soon. CNN reports The Gateway Foundation wants to construct the Von Braun Station, and the goal is to have it floating along by 2025 -- with it fully operational by 2027.

The Von Braun Station is also not the only space hotel design in the works. Earlier in 2019, US-based space tech startup Orion Span released plans for a luxury space hotel called Aurora Station ...

The orbiting vacation destination, called Von Braun station, is massive. Its design absolutely dwarfs anything humans have ever sent into (or built) in space, and while some other “space hotel ...

The Von Braun Station will sleep 352 passengers with a maximum capacity of 450. Space tourists will get all the amenities of an Earth-bound hotel, with a few bonuses of course.

Von Braun is not the first luxury hotel proposal. Orion Span’s Aurora Station, which can accommodate six customers, might be able to accept guests as early as 2022.

The Gateway Foundation hasn’t said what a stay at the Von Braun Station would cost, but Orion Span says a 12-day stay aboard its Aurora Station will run $9.5 million, transportation included.

Editor's Note: As of 2022, the Von Braun Space Station was renamed Voyager Station. Additionally, a second station named Pioneer Station has recently been announced.