SpaceX is preparing to launch the first private commercial space station

The race for space tourism is heating up with the announcement last week of the plan to launch a private commercial space station, the first of its kind, by billionaire Elon Musk’s Space-X company (Tesla, Twitter). The station is called Haven-1, and it was born out of the partnership between Space-X and Vast, an American company that specializes in space settlement technologies, and is supposed to be operational in August 2025. It will accommodate four astronauts for a maximum of one month.

For its launch, US billionaire CEO Jed McCaleb chose a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The private space station will orbit in low-Earth orbit before joining a larger station currently under consideration, according to it widespace.com. Vast is pleased to embark on this adventure, launching the world’s first commercial space station, Haven-1, and its first crew, Vast-1. This partnership marks the first steps in Vast’s long-term vision to launch much larger artificial gravity space stations into Earth orbit. and beyond,” He welcomed Jed McCaleb, who plans in the long term to develop commercial tourism inside a 100-meter-long space station powered by artificial gravity.

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For Elon Musk and Space-X, this is also another pawn on the space tourism chessboard in competition with “Mr. Amazon” Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin project.