The start-up Orbital Assembly Corporation (AOC) has announced plans to open a space hotel by 2027. Station Voyager is to be a luxury resort designed to accommodate 280 guests and 112 crew members, with a restaurant, a bar, a concert hall, a gym, and even a movie theater.

According to Tim Alatorre, OAC vice president and architect who designed the hotel, he understands the skepticism about the project. But he believes that the issue will become more commonplace.

"I think [in the future] it's going to be a normal thing, where mom went to space, dad went to space," he said, adding that "being an astronaut is no longer going to be a new thing, because everyone has done it," Tim Alatorre.

However, at this point, it remains novel. The rotating wheel concept, proposed in the early 19th century as a way of generating artificial gravity, was later popularized in the 1950s by German scientist Wernher von Braun. Thanks to the centrifugal force it produces, visitors will be able to move around normally.

"We provide the gravity," Orbital Assembly Corporation said in its website.

Previously, the gravity level will be similar to that of the Moon, about one-sixth that of Earth. But Alatorre explains that the goal is to get up to the level of Mars (one-third of Earth's gravity) and eventually replicate the weight of our planet. But they want to better understand the physiology of their guests before increasing the G-force.