The World’s First Commercial Space Station Looks Like a Luxury Hotel Inside – Guided by an iconic former Apple designer, the wood paneling, viewing window, and cozy duvets aboard the Vast Haven-1 reimagine space travel for style and comfort.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-worlds-first-commercial-space-station-looks-like-a-luxury-hotel-inside/
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>Vast is a Southern California startup founded by crypto billionaire Jed McCaleb, a programmer who, in 2010, transformed his [Mt. Gox card trading site](https://www.wired.com/story/after-a-10-year-wait-mt-gox-bitcoin-is-finally-being-returned/) into the first major Bitcoin exchange. He is worth $2.9 billion according to [Forbes’ Billionaires List](https://www.forbes.com/profile/jed-mccaleb/). McCaleb founded Vast in 2021 to develop artificial gravity space stations.
>Early hires included Kyle Dedmon, former SpaceX construction vice president; systems engineer Tom Hayford who has worked for Relativity Space and SpaceX; Molly McCormick, a former SpaceX human factors engineer; and Colin Smith, a former SpaceX propulsion engineer.
>“Earth has finite resources, but out in the solar system, there is an enormous untapped wealth, both in terms of energy and matter, that could support many ‘Earths,’” McCaleb told [SpaceNews in 2022](https://spacenews.com/vast-space-intro/).
“Likewise,” he added, “mankind needs a frontier. Every prosperous civilization has had one to push off into—we haven’t had one for some time. Without a frontier, the world becomes a zero-sum game, which is detrimental to the psyche of a civilization.”
Similar to a certain other space-obsessed billionaire, McCaleb has his eyes on the stars.
“In terms of the long-term future of humanity, we will need to live off of the Earth eventually,” he says.
If the designer was tasked with creating the most boring interior, he had a great success.
I’ll feel better about billionaire-designed space stations when they demonstrate the ability to master making safe submarines.
Extremely offensive while homelessness is still a thing.
You can’t have the ultra-wealthy without the ultra-impoverished.
I can’t think of a single reason why this won’t turn into a real life version of Avenue 5. I can’t imagine having so much money and using it on… This. There are so many better futures we need to focus immediate resources on
Fantastic news. When is it ready to host all the billionaires. ?
.maybe musk and a few others should go check it out. Stay awhile
Guys obviously not that smart if he put tables in a space station.