World's First Commercial Space Station Planned in Russia

This illustration depicts the planned Russian Commercial Space Station with visiting Soyuz or Progress spacecraft, which can ferry supplies or cargo to the orbiting lab. Credit: Orbital Technologies

Update. Two Russian aerospace companies are teaming up to build what they say will be the "world's first commercial space station" – an orbiting outpost open to private citizens, professional astronauts and scientists. For a price.

Called the Commercial Space Station, the orbiting space laboratory and hotel will be able to host up to seven people at a time. It is being planned under a partnership between the Russian companies Orbital Technologies and RSC Energia.