Extraterrestrial Real Estate: American Startup Opens Booking for Future Moon Hotel

A new ambitious project to build the first hotel on the surface of the Moon has launched in San Francisco. Room bookings are already open.

The company is called Galactic Resource Utilization Space, Inc. (GRU Space). It is an American tech startup founded in 2025 by University of California, Berkeley graduate Skyler Chan, and is participating in the winter intake of Y Combinator – a well-known program supporting young companies. The company develops technologies for construction beyond Earth and plans to build the first hotel on the Moon, aiming to open by 2032, according to Y Combinator.

The startup has already launched an online service for booking future stays. To be included on the list of potential clients, travelers must first pay a registration fee and then make a deposit ranging from $250,000 to $1 million, depending on the chosen package and conditions. Experts estimate that the total cost of the trip, including transport, accommodation, and necessary preparations, will be around $10 million per guest.

GRU Space positions the project as the first commercial facility for permanent habitation beyond Earth. The company plans to use its own technology to convert lunar soil (regolith) into building material, as well as modular structures that will first be assembled and launched to the Moon and then deployed into livable structures. The first technology tests on the lunar surface are scheduled for 2031, with real living spaces for humans planned by 2032, writes Euronews.


Startup founder Skyler Chan says he sees space tourism and off-Earth infrastructure as the next step in human economic development, which will allow humanity to become an “interplanetary species” and enable sustainable commercial activity on the Moon and beyond, for example, on Mars.

Despite the impressive plans, aerospace experts note that the project faces enormous technological, logistical, and regulatory challenges. So far, no commercial facility for long-term human habitation on the Moon has been built, and the plans for a 2032 launch can only be judged based on the startup’s roadmap and investor promises.

The launch of bookings has already attracted the attention of a wide audience and the media: both tech outlets and international publications are following it, noting both the ambition of the project and the high deposit amounts required by startups for the prospect of a future space trip, adds [leech=[https://www.space.com/astronomy/moon/this-company-is-taking-usd1-million-reservations-for-hotel-rooms-on-the-moon]Space[/leech)].

Thus, the American startup GRU Space has become one of the most discussed projects in space entrepreneurship, offering for the first time in human history commercial booking for accommodation on another celestial body. But from the investors’ perspective, “extraterrestrial real estate” is a highly risky asset, and only large players who can afford “risk write-offs” invest in it, experts say International Investment.