- A company called Interstellar Lab hopes to construct space-inspired villages.
- In 2021, it plans to build a 100-person colony in California's Mojave Desert to help prepare astronauts for life on Mars.
- Tourists could stay there for between $3,000 and $6,000 per week.
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Even if we succeed in sending humans to Mars someday - NASA hopes to do that in the 2030s - astronauts would need a place to stay once they arrive.
To research how people might one day settle on Mars, engineers and scientists at a company called Interstellar Lab are designing space-inspired villages.
In November, the company announced a plan to build a development, called the Experimental Bioregenerative Station (EBIOS), in California's Mojave Desert starting in 2021. The design for that project features glass domes for growing food and luxurious bedrooms for astronauts and visitors.
The prototype space village could be used to train astronauts for life on the red planet - or give high-paying tourists a simulation of life away from Earth.
Take a look at the concept.