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Appointments for heaven Dot, a dining establishment called for its view 250 miles above Earth, open at the end of the century.
More than half a century after we landed on the moon, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is partnering with Sierra Space, a number of Amazon divisions and a half-dozen other business and universities to introduce the first industrial economy in space a “mixed-use business park” called Orbital Reef with a hotel, restaurant and R&D outposts for business testing items in microgravity.
The early colonizers of Low Earth Orbit that’s the layer between Earth’s atmosphere and Deep Space are slated to arrive on the Dream Chaser, a supersonic spaceplane developed by Colorado-based aerospace company Sierra Space.
Together, Blue Origin and Sierra Space plan to open Orbital Reef in 2027, aspiring to become the largest real estate developer in space.
Courtesy Sierra Space
“We’re at the doorstep of the Orbital Age,” said Sierra Space CEO Tom Vice. “The next generation of breakthrough products that we invent in space will change everything about what we do here on Earth.”
Vice, who grew up seeing the Apollo program to become president of Northrop Grumman’s aerospace systems department, calls it a chapter similar to the arrival of the Industrial Transformation or the Details Age.
The three-way “billionaire area race” among Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, Elon Musk’s Space X and Bezos’ Blue Origin is speeding up civilian area travel with the objective of slowly reducing expenses, however there’s still a range to go.
Courtesy Blue Origin
“We first have to get good at building commercial economies in low earth orbit,” said Vice. “Then we’ll move to the lunar surface, 250,000 miles away, before we can figure out how to live on a planet that’s 35 million miles away.”
In 2015, NASA granted Sierra Area a $3 billion agreement to supply the International Spaceport station with freight and crew.
