This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Batchel with my good colleague, Bob Zimmerman.

He keeps behind the black.

Bob, what is Vast?

Vast is one of the four companies or consortiums that are attempting to build commercial private space stations.

And it is, I rank them number one because of many things. that are attempting to build commercial private space stations.

And it is, I rank them number one because of many things.

And I'm not going to go into all the details.

It will take too long at this moment in time.

But they have announced, in the last month, they have announced preliminary agreements with Uzbekistan, the Baldives, and Colombia, all these nations,

to potentially send astronauts to their

Haven One Space Station module that they hope to launch in the spring, keep up for three years,

and do four different 30-day man missions to it. Well, they've now opened an office in Japan

for the same purpose to try to encourage Japan and private companies in

Japan to send payloads and humans to this Haven One station. Now, they haven't gotten any preliminary

commitments yet because I think everyone's waiting to see if Haven One gets launched and when it gets

launched, if it's operating properly. But I suspect that they're setting it up so that very quickly, once it launched, John,

they're going to have a lot of activity on that station.

Impulse and Starfish.

What?

All right.

So we had two different stories from two different entities attempting to demonstrate

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