Southern California startup Vast announces plans to launch world's first commercial space station
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Vast, a southern California company, announced plans to launch the world's first commercial space station. That station would launch to low-Earth orbit no sooner than August 2025.
It is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to low-Earth orbit no sooner than August 2025. Julia Musto is a reporter for Fox News and Fox Business Digital.
The mission would be followed by Vast-1, the first human spaceflight mission to Haven-1 on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. That flight would include four crew members who would dock with the station for as many as 30 days while orbiting the Earth.
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