In a groundbreaking announcement, Vast has revealed that SpaceX will be launching the world’s first commercial space station, known as Vast Haven-1. The launch is scheduled to take place on a Falcon 9 rocket to low-Earth orbit in August 2025. Haven-1 will be a fully-functional independent space station and will eventually be connected as a module to a larger Vast space station that is currently in development.
Following the launch of Haven-1, Falcon 9 will also launch Vast’s first human spaceflight mission to the commercial space station, Vast-1. Dragon and its four-person crew will dock with Haven-1 for up to 30 days while orbiting Earth. Vast has also secured an option for an additional human spaceflight mission to the station aboard a Dragon spacecraft.
The selection process for the Vast-1 crew is currently underway and will be announced at a future date. Once finalized, SpaceX will provide crew training on Falcon 9 and the Dragon spacecraft, emergency preparedness, spacesuit and spacecraft ingress and egress exercises, as well as partial and full mission simulations including docking and undocking for return to Earth.
Vast’s ultimate goal is to develop a 100-meter-long multi-module spinning artificial gravity space station launched by SpaceX’s Starship transportation system. In support of this, Vast will explore conducting the world’s first spinning artificial gravity experiment on a commercial space station with Haven-1.
This exciting new partnership between Vast and SpaceX will continue to create and accelerate greater accessibility to space, providing more opportunities for exploration on the road to making humanity multiplanetary.
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