Galactic Resource Utilization Space Inc. (Gru Space)
A Space Tourism startup developing the world’s first hotel on the Moon.
Highlights
Planet Ventures Investment Details
"SpaceX has shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years"
Summiting Mount Everest was once the preserve of the most dedicated and ambitious explorers. Today, there is literally a waiting list to stand in line to reach the top.What once seemed out of reach became commonplace.
When SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic sent their first tourists into space in 2021 those trips were major global news stories, documentaries were made about the flights. Now you wouldn’t even know it’s still happening, but in just the last 5 years over 120 tourists have taken a trip into the black. This could soon become the story of a trip to the moon.
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Focus
Space Tourism
Moon hotel
Building The First Hotel On The Moon
GRU aims to build off-planet habitats using in-situ resource utilization technology turning local material into building material. Their first habitat will be a hotel on the Moon for space tourists aiming to open 2032.
In 2029, a demo mission will turn lunar regolith into bricks and demonstrate our modular pressurized habitat system. A second mission will begin laying the hotel’s foundation in a lunar cave. A third mission will open the first lunar hotel.
The final hotel will host up to 10 guests and be accessible via commercial flights operated by companies such as Blue Origin and SpaceX. GRU’s long-term plan:
- Build the first hotel on the Moon. GRU solves off‑world surface habitation.
- Help Build America’s first Moon base: roads, mass drivers, warehouses, and physical infrastructure.
- Reinvest profits into resource utilization systems on the Moon, Mars, asteroids, and beyond.
Building America's first Moon base is no longer a speculative thought experiment; it is now explicit US policy and a priority of incoming NASA leadership.
Investors
The Future of Space Tourism
GRU Space is backed by Y Combinator, and Nvidia’s Inception program as well as investors in SpaceX, and Anduril.[1]
GRU Space has documented their Moon Hotel could be economically viable with as few as 12 visitors per year.[2]
This company is currently taking $1 million reservations for hotel rooms on the moon. NASA is aiming to land people back on the moon as soon as 2028, and this time they intend to stay there.[3]
With the Chinese planning a moon base soon after, this could open an entirely new space race on the moon. Having first mover advantage in advanced habitat technology could open untold possibilities in a virgin moon-based economy.
Team
The people behind GRU Space Inc.
Founder & CEO
Skyler Chan
An Air Force-trained pilot at 16, Skyler previously built vehicle software at Tesla, built a NASA funded 3D-printer launched into space.
Founding Member
Dr. Kevin Cannon
Professor at Colorado School of Mines, and previously CTO at Ethos. He is the world expert in lunar and martian regolith. Kevin holds a PhD in Planetary Sciences from Brown University and leads GRU’s ISRU program.
Advisor
Dr. Robert Lillis
Associate Director for Planetary Science at UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory and PI of ESCAPADE (NASA Mars mission). His research addresses radiation, space weather, and atmospheric loss critical to human presence beyond Earth.
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