With the International Space Station heading for decommissioning in 2031, private firms are planning to step in with their own stations so that astronauts can continue living and working in low-Earth orbit.īlue Origin, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is aiming to launch the Orbital Reef facility by 2030, while Voyager Space, Lockheed Martin, and Nanoracks hope to deploy the Starlab station in 2027. SpaceX will provide the four crewmembers with training for the Crew Dragon flight aboard the Falcon 9, as well as for the journey home inside the spacecraft. Vast - founded in 2021 as a specialist in space habitation technologies - will sell all four of the seats on the maiden mission, with customers expected to include domestic and international space agencies and private individuals involved in science and philanthropic projects. “A commercial rocket launching a commercial spacecraft with commercial astronauts to a commercial space station is the future of low-Earth orbit, and with Vast, we’re taking another step toward making that future a reality,” SpaceX executive Tom Ochinero said in a release. The crew will then live and work aboard the main station for around 30 days before returning to Earth in the Crew Dragon capsule. SpaceX’s Starship launch sparked a fire in a Texas state park SpaceX shares surreal footage of Falcon Heavy fairing reentry ‘Undersea space station’ takes big step toward deployment
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