Overview
- Applications require a $1,000 fee with prioritized deposits of $250,000 to $1 million that the company describes as refundable, although some reports question the terms, and total trip costs are estimated to exceed $10 million per guest.
- GRU Space is aiming to host paying visitors as early as 2032, but deposits do not guarantee a flight date or availability.
- The concept pairs inflatable pressurized habitats delivered from Earth with protective shells built from lunar regolith bricks produced and assembled by robotic systems.
- Demonstration missions are planned starting in 2029, with another in 2031, to test habitat deployment, regolith processing, and robotic construction ahead of an initial four-guest operation that could later expand to about 10.
- Progress depends on third-party heavy-lift launch and crewed lunar lander availability, life-support certification, regulatory clearance, and the development of basic lunar support infrastructure that does not yet exist.