I want to put a hotel on the Moon. I want to make humanity interplanetary in our lifetime.
Throughout human history, we’ve explored and expanded. It’s fundamental to human nature – becoming interplanetary is inevitable.
Arguably, what’s stopping us from doing that right now is that we haven’t yet solved off-world surface habitation.
Only when we do that will we be able to have an exciting future, with people growing up on the Moon and Mars.
Building a hotel on the Moon happens to be the fastest economic wedge to making that exciting future happen. And no new physics is required.
How we'll do it
Every core technology we rely on already exists in some form: inflatable habitats, life-support systems, autonomous robotics and lunar landing vehicles.
Apollo proved humans could safely live on the Moon for days using 1960s technology.
Since then, we’ve massively improved materials, autonomy, simulation and launch capability.
The key is sequencing. We start small, prove systems on the Moon itself, then scale. We’re not jumping straight to a fully built lunar city.
We’re validating step by step, with each mission directly de-risking the next one.
The first hotel will be built on Earth, launched to the Moon, robotically deployed and inflated.
This maximises habitable volume while minimising launch mass.
Later versions increasingly use lunar regolith (rocks and dust) to build rigid outer structures.
Over time, more and more of the hotel is made from Moon material rather than Earth-launched components, which is what allows the system to scale economically.
And visitors to the hotel will get something that has never existed before in human history: the experience of living on another world.
Only 12 people have ever walked on the Moon, and all of them stayed for a matter of hours or days inside spacecraft designed for survival, not comfort.
What we’re building is fundamentally different. Guests won’t just visit the Moon; they’ll sleep there, wake up there, look back at Earth from the lunar surface, go outside on EVAs and explore the landscape, then return to a purpose-built habitat designed for human life, safety and awe.
But the hotel is just the beginning. Once you can support humans on the Moon, you can build roads, warehouses, power systems and industrial infrastructure.
From there, you repeat the process on Mars. The Moon becomes the training ground and industrial base for becoming a truly multi-planetary civilisation.
At that point, tourism is no longer the main story. It’s about cities, industry and millions of people living beyond Earth.
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The ultimate vision is civilisational independence – a future where humanity is no longer constrained to a single planet, where we use the resources of the Moon, Mars and beyond to support billions of lives and unlock an economy measured not in trillions, but in planetary scale.
Remember, every major expansion in human history looked impossible right up until it happened.
People said that heavier-than-air flight was impossible, that humans would never reach the Moon, that reusable rockets didn’t make sense.
The difference between fantasy and reality is not belief – it’s execution.
We’re not asking people to believe. We’re building hardware, aiming to land it on the Moon and proving that it works.
Reality will do the convincing.
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