Is there going to be a Hilton Lunar Hotel?

Question

Is the Hilton hotel chain considering to build a hotel on the moon when tourism there is developed-maybe by the year 2025?

Answer 1

Not a chance. Certainly not by 2025. The cost to construct a hotel on the moon would be seriously prohibitive. A hotel requires a way for paying customers to arrive. All currently planned Private spaceplanes are designed to be SUBORBITAL. No one has realistic plans for private orbital craft, much less lunar capable ships. Only a few governments can afford that sort of technology. NASA used to have that technology, but has largely lost it. NASA would not be carrying tourists anyway. It kills enough of its highly trained astronauts without killing civilians too.
Every year or so some billionaire pays the russians enough cash to take a trip into space. A hotel would require large numbers of billionaires with deathwishes. Considering transportation costs, the billionaire would probably have to fork over a couple of grand for a bottle of water. And god knows how much for a room.

No, as business plans go, this one is a loser.

Answer 2

There would, first, have to be regular trips to the moon before any consideration of tourism.

Humans have been flying in space since the early 1960s and only in recent years has there been any "tourists" in the space stations. It took over 40 years for THAT to happen, and it cost about $25 million dollars for those two guys to go. And that is just to get them into orbit. Even then, the Russians only did it because their space program was strapped for cash.

Also, don't forget this: we have not been to the moon in 30 years. Any new manned lunar program has to start, almost, from scratch. The US Apollo program succeded, but the stories are just being released, now, about exactly how risky that business was.

Manned research missions in about 15 years? Maybe. Tourism? Not likely. A permanent hotel? No way!

Answer 3

Absolutely not by 2025, but if we're extremely fortunate, and there are no stupid things like war or dumb presidents (cough-cough), then maybe by the end of the century. Which means not a chance in hell.
We'd have ot make a lot of trips to the moon to get constructin under way. It would take bilions, maybe trillions of bucks to get the thing even built. We haven't been to the moon in abbout thirty years, and right now, NASA is concentrating mainly on Mars, not the moon. And by the end of the century, probably and hopefully, no one will give a flying crap abot the Hiltons.

Answer 4

Maybe, maybe not.
Who knows how technology will advance in the next twenty years. But just keep in mind, thirty years ago, people were planning on having flying cars by the year 2000.

Answer 5

No, at least not for half a century. Space radiation is still a deadly threat, and moon dust is also a major problem.