Overview
- Founder Skyler Chan announced plans to build a series of lunar habitats culminating in a hotel and invited prospective guests to place refundable deposits ranging from $250,000 to $1 million.
- The preliminary roadmap calls for a 10‑kg demonstration payload on a commercial lunar lander in 2029 to test an inflatable structure and regolith “Moon brick” fabrication.
- A second mission aims to deploy a larger inflatable system inside a lunar pit to trial scaled operations and site preparation.
- The first hotel concept targets 2032 and envisions an inflatable habitat capable of supporting up to four guests on the lunar surface.
- GRU Space says it has seed backing from Y Combinator, but it remains a very small team and expects to rely on third‑party transport such as SpaceX’s Starship, making the timeline contingent on successful demonstrations and external providers.