Vast wraps $500 million funding round as company vies for NASA space station contract
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Vast Space is betting on a "leapfrog strategy" to land a phase two NASA award for the International Space Station.
Vast Space missed out on the first round of NASA awards for the next International Space Station, but that isn't stopping the company from going all in on stage two.
CEO Max Haot told CNBC's Morgan Brennan this week that the company is betting on its "leapfrog strategy" and planning to build and launch a successful space station to prove its capabilities.
"If we do all of that, or are on the way to do that, I think it will be impossible to ignore for NASA in terms of the hardware that we have," he said.
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