With a deposit of $1,000,000, daring space tourists can book a room in the first hotel on the moon.

The start-up company booking the adventure holiday is based in California and just launched on Monday its site where adventure lovers can “reserve a spot”. Founded by 21-year-old Berkeley graduate Skyler Chan, Galactic Resource Utilization Space (GRU) aims to expand to Mars in the future.

The company is aiming to open the first lunar hotel or what it describes “the first-ever permanent off-Earth structure” by 2032. Construction is expected to begin in 2029, the company added, pending regulatory approval.

“Our mission is to make humanity interplanetary by building lunar industrial and habitation infrastructure, starting with regolith utilization and habitat-scale demonstrators,” it said.

First Hotel on the Moon

Photo: GRU

Among other details outlined in the whitepaper, GRU says it will create an inflatable hotel assembled on earth which will be able to accommodate four people for five days and a second hotel constructed partially out of lunar materials to accommodate 10 people for five nights.

“By building the first hotel on the moon, we introduce immediate, tangible value for customers on earth, while providing the same core capabilities required for permanent surface infrastructure. We position ourselves as the primary architect of humanities future on the Moon Mars and beyond,” the company said in a whitepaper.

The start-up is currently hiring a Founding Mechanical / Structures MTS to design, analyze, build, test, and produce the lunar habitat prototype demo and associated life support- critical structures.