Million-Dollar Moon Hotel Reservations: Start-Up Promises Lunar Stays by 2032
A Silicon Valley start-up is accepting $1,000,000 deposits for 2032 lunar hotel stays, claiming it will construct a "permanent off-Earth structure" using "proprietary habitation modules" and lunar soil processing.
Galactic Resource Utilization Space (GRU), founded by 21-year-old UC Berkeley graduate Skyler Chan, has cited SpaceX and Anduril investors as funding sources for the project, which aligns with NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman’s lunar expansion goals.
The company’s claims about lunar soil processing and automated construction methods lack peer-reviewed evidence. While GRU states it will use "automated processes" to build the hotel, no technical details about these systems have been published in scientific journals.
The scientific community has not reached consensus on the feasibility of constructing large-scale lunar habitats by 2032, given current technological limitations and the absence of regulatory frameworks for commercial lunar development.
Chan described the project as occurring "during an inflection point where we can actually become interplanetary before we die."
However, NASA has not confirmed these observations, and the timeline for regulatory approval remains unspecified.
The scientific community has not reached consensus on the feasibility of constructing large-scale lunar habitats by 2032, given current technological limitations and the absence of regulatory frameworks for commercial lunar development.
