You can now reserve a hotel room on the Moon for $250k
4 months ago
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- #Startup
- GRU Space announced plans to build advanced lunar habitats, including a hotel inspired by San Francisco's Palace of the Fine Arts.
- The company is accepting deposits ($250,000–$1M) for early lunar missions, targeting launches within six years.
- Founder Skyler Chan, a recent UC Berkeley graduate, leads GRU Space with a vision for lunar tourism.
- Chan believes enabling mass space travel is the most impactful endeavor, driving his studies in engineering and computer science.
- Despite skepticism, lunar tourism is seen as a viable long-term commercial activity on the Moon.