The world’s first space hotel will begin construction in 2025. It will feature restaurants, a cinema, spa and rooms for 400 guests.

Orbital Assembly, a large construction company, announced in a virtual event on its Youtube channel that it was on track to start construction.The work is due to start in low Earth orbit in 2025.

Tourists are required to undergo some training (both safety and physical) before boarding their SpaceX Starship shuttle to Voyager Station, which is designed to accommodate 280 eight guests and 112 crew members. That will include people there for space tourism alone, scientists conducting low-gravity research and service industry professionals doing what they do best — but in space.

“It’s going to happen fast when it starts,” said Orbital Assembly’s chief executive John Blincow. “And we believe it’s going to happen a lot, too, even before we finish the first one. We have buyers for other stations because they’re very, very lucrative.”

Elon Musk’s Starship rocket made its landing ..until it blew up.

The latest heavy-duty launch vehicle prototype from SpaceX soared successfully into the sky in a high-altitude test blast-off on Wednesday from Boca Chica, Texas. Then it flew back to Earth to achieve the first upright landing for a Starship model.

However, the triumph was brief because slightly to one side of its fire-suppression system trained a stream of water on flames still burning at the base of the vehicle. This resulted in the spacecraft blowing into pieces about eight minutes after landing.

It was the third such landing attempt to end in a fireball after an otherwise successful test flight for the Starship, being developed by SpaceX to carry humans and 100 tons of cargo on future missions to the moon and Mars.

A first orbital Starship flight is planned for the year’s end. Musk has said he intends to fly Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa around the moon with the Starship in 2023.