Featured Image Credit: Vast
You can now take a look at the ‘world’s first private space station’ which has lavish facilities including a gym and entertainment rooms.
While you might have a mental image of the International Space Station, this is a world away.
With the luxury rooms on offer, you could mistake it for photos of the posh hotel, but this getaway will be located all the way above the atmosphere.
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The space station, which is known as Haven-1, is currently being created by the firm Vast, and will feature wood paneling and white padded walls throughout.
It’s expected to be launched into orbit by a SpaceX rocket sometime in 2026 and will boast four bedrooms.
The beds will come with a specially designed duvet in order to make sleeping while weightless more comfortable.
Speaking to Wired, Vast’s chief design and marketing officer, Hillary Coe, said: “This is not just any old duvet. It’s a duvet that inflates, creating this equal pressure up against you which allows for a beautiful, comfortable night’s rest.”
In the middle of the station is a movable table and a viewing window.
Vast’s website describes the station as having a ‘sophisticated and human-centric design’ and says that the company is ‘pioneering the path to long-term living and thriving in space’.
Despite it looking like a hotel, the CEO of Vast, Max Hoat, says it’s not.
Talking about Haven-1, he said: “We are not building a luxury hotel in space, we are applying design to enhance crew cohesion, productivity, safety, communication to help sovereign astronauts and self-funded private individuals achieve their important orbital mission objectives.”
Visitors will be able to stay on Haven-1 for up to 30 days but, while it’s not yet been confirmed just how much it’ll cost, it’s likely only going to be available to the super rich.
A seat on the privately funded SpaceX Dragon spacecraft cost around $55 million which saw the first ever privately-funded spacewalk take place.
This was completed by billionaire Jared Isaacman who, as he took his first steps outside of the ISS, said: “"Back at home we still have a lot of work to do, but from here it looks like a perfect world.”
Still, while Coe has admitted that the trips to Haven-1 won’t be affordable to most, the company hopes that one day ‘anyone can experience space’.
SpaceX hopes to make further technological advances by one day getting humans to Mars.
