Die erste kommerzielle Raumstation der Welt sieht von innen wie ein Luxushotel aus – Unter der Leitung eines legendären ehemaligen Apple-Designers stellen die Holzvertäfelung, das Sichtfenster und die gemütlichen Bettdecken an Bord der Vast Haven-1 die Raumfahrt mit Stil und Komfort neu vor.

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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.

I’ll feel better about billionaire-designed space stations when they demonstrate the ability to master making safe submarines.