SpaceX and Vast to launch first commercial space station in 2025
Vast announced the collaboration with SpaceX on its website.
The world's first commercial space station, Haven-1, and future human spaceflight missions will raise access to space exploration.
The Haven-1 station will be carried to low Earth orbit by a Falcon 9 rocket, with a follow-up Vast-1 mission using Crew Dragon to bring four people to Haven-1 for up to 30 days. Vast is currently accepting bookings for crew who want to participate.
While Haven-1 is relatively small, the company hopes to make it just one module in a larger station that can simulate the Moon's gravity by spinning.
The 2025 target is ambitious, and would see Vast beat well-known rivals, including Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Voyager, Lockheed Martin and Nanoracks to deploying a private space station.
