Roll up for Axiom’s $55 million space holiday

Designer cabins, gourmet food, great views — luxury space travel is coming. Damian Whitworth talks to the Nasa veteran behind it
The Axiom space station
The Axiom space station

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The year is 2023 and you are holidaying in space, orbiting at 17,000 mph 250 miles above Earth. Through the largest window observatory yet constructed for space transport (by humans, at least) you can drink in the full panorama of low Earth orbit, watch the sun rise every 90 minutes and pick out your home city.

If you tire of chatting and eating gourmet space food with fellow tourists in the communal area, you can float in microgravity back to the habitation module for a nap or look down through your own private window at the world. Your cabin, designed by the French designer Philippe Starck, will have padded cream-coloured walls and glow with hundreds of tiny LED lights. “My vision,” Starck says, “is to