A new space race is on the offing, exhibiting the traits of the older one, although this time round, it is Russian and United States businesses outwitting one another instead of their respective nations.

Orbital Technologies, based in Moscow, has announced that it will be teaming up with Rocket and Space Corp. Energia, a spacecraft manufacturer in the building of an outpost for orbiting for all space travelers. It is known as CSS or Commercial Space Station, which will be set by 2016, as said by spokesperson of the company.

However, that would be a whole year after the Bigelow Aerospace, based in Las Vegas, has put up its own commercial station. The company is a part of Robert Bigelow franchise and the founder of the hotel chain, Budget Suites of America. The company has been able to launch prototypes and build inflatable modules, which would be serving as orbital hotels as well as research labs.

Thus the space race has already been set in motion to determine who will be creating the first ever space hotel in the world.

The chief Executive of the Orbital Technologies Company, Sergey Kostenko has said that after launching and under operation, the CSS will start offering commercial destinations of their own kind, as well as exploration missions of private and state spaceflights.

The Commercial Space Station’s building will take place in Russia while the launch will be through a Soyuz Russian rocket, as the space race heats up.

The same rocket will be taking United States astronauts in and out of the International Space Station (ISS) due to the end of the space shuttle program next year.

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