{"id":163739,"date":"2023-05-12T15:22:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T20:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/spacex-and-vast-team-up-to-create-first-private-space-station"},"modified":"2023-05-12T15:22:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T20:22:19","slug":"spacex-and-vast-team-up-to-create-first-private-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/spacex-and-vast-team-up-to-create-first-private-space-station","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX and Vast Team Up to Create First Private Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-and-vast-team-up-to-create-first-private-space-station2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Haven-1 is scheduled to reach low-Earth orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than August 2025, and will initially act as an independent crewed station, before connecting to a larger Vast base, currently in development. If all goes well, the Vast-1 mission will then send a four-person crew via SpaceX Dragon to dock with Haven-1 for up to 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>While the International Space Station has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/news\/international-space-station-operations-extended-to-2030\">at least another seven years of life<\/a>, plans for Haven-1 represent \u201cthe first steps in Vast\u2019s long-term vision of launching much larger, artificial gravity space stations in Earth orbit and beyond,\u201d says Vast CEO Jed McCaleb.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, Vast plans to develop a 328-foot-long multi-module spinning artificial gravity space station, delivered by SpaceX\u2019s Starship transportation system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haven-1 is scheduled to reach low-Earth orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than August 2025, and will initially act as an independent crewed station, before connecting to a larger Vast base, currently in development. If all goes well, the Vast-1 mission will then send a four-person crew via SpaceX Dragon to dock with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}