"Commercial Space Stations Set to Launch in 2025 by SpaceX and Vast"

Long Beach-based space startup Vast Space has signed a contract with SpaceX to launch the world’s first commercial space station as soon as 2025, with plans to crew it almost immediately. The Haven-1 station will be launched via a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, and a Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying four people will dock with the station soon after it reaches orbit. Vast plans to sell tickets aboard that first mission to space agency astronauts or private citizens interested for scientific or philanthropic reasons. The startup's long-term goal is to deploy a 328-foot-long commercial space station in the 2030s.