Vast announced that SpaceX will launch what is expected to be the world\u2019s first commercial space station, known as Vast Haven-1, quickly followed by two human spaceflight missions to said space station. Scheduled to launch on a Falcon 9 rocket to low-Earth orbit no earlier than August 2025. Haven-1 will be a fully-functional independent space station and eventually be connected as a module to a larger Vast space station currently in development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Upon launch of Haven-1, Falcon 9 will launch Vast\u2019s 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 also secured an option for an additional human spaceflight mission to the station aboard a Dragon spacecraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Vast-1 crew selection process is underway and the crew 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vast\u2019s long-term goal is to develop a 100-meter-long multi-module spinning artificial gravity space station launched by SpaceX\u2019s Starship transportation system. In support of this, Vast will explore conducting the world\u2019s first spinning artificial gravity experiment on a commercial space station with Haven-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This new partnership between Vast and SpaceX will continue to create and accelerate greater accessibility to space and more opportunities for exploration on the road to making humanity multiplanetary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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