Vast is moving fast. Just two years old the startup has an ambitious plan to put the

first commercial space station in orbit even as others compete to do the same.

Vast is developing Haven One and plans to launch it

next year, with a first private astronauts scheduled to arrive just months later.

Vast is not one of the companies that was awarded first phase funding from NASA to develop a replacement for the

International Space Station, what's called the Commercial Low Earth Orbit Destination or CLD program.

But what it lacks in government dollars, VAST makes up for in private funding thanks to its deep

pocketed founder Jed Macalib, crypto and internet entrepreneur vast CEO Max Hout

says the plan though is to work with NASA and the timeline which leverages partnerships with

SpaceX is the way to make it happen.

So we are fully funded without any additional effects for funding all the way through that mission, including the Dragon Flight.

And our view is that if we can do all of this before the CLD, or before NASA select its partner,

and obviously Congress and the Senate and the White House we you know we

would be very hard to ignore because all of our competitors are talking about

doing it none of them are planning before the selection to actually

build and launch a space station. They are waiting for the source selection. They are

waiting to win the NASA contract. So that's our key differentiator. We are the only one with the key

stated objective and the resource to do it to make it all happen prior the

selection. On this episode an in-depth conversation with Vast's CEO Max Hout from the company's display

booth at last month's space symposium about the ambitious timeline, the vision to create

gravity in space, and how vast is leveraging the

hardware of SpaceX to accomplish all of it. I'm Morgan Brennan and this is

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