The space company Blue Origin of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos wants to set up a private space station in space in the coming years.
"For more than 60 years, NASA and other space agencies have developed orbital spaceflight and space colonization, paving the way for commercial business to take off in this decade," said Blue Origin CEO Brent Sherwood.
The space station will therefore be called "Orbital Reef" and be used by tradespeople in space to research weightlessness, for example.
The project is a joint venture with commercial space company Sierra Space and is supported by the Boeing Corporation and Arizona State University.
According to an advertising brochure from Blue Origin, Orbital Reef will fly at an altitude of 500 kilometers, a little above the International Space Station ISS.
With a volume of 830 cubic meters, it would be slightly smaller than the ISS.
There is space for ten residents in the station and, according to the plans, can experience 32 sunrises and sunsets a day in futuristic modules with large windows.
"We will expand access, reduce costs, and provide all of the services and amenities required to normalize space travel," promised Sherwood.
Blue Origin is currently able to fly into suborbital space with its New Shepard rocket.
In mid-October, the company brought the "Star Trek" actor William Shatner into space, accompanied by great media hype.
Other planned projects include a rocket that can put cargo and people into orbit, and a lunar module.
However, the company has lost the moon contract to competitor SpaceX from Tesla founder Elon Musk.
In addition, the company Virgin Galactic of the British entrepreneur Richard Branson now also offers flights into space.