Inside ‘eccentric’ Ripple founder’s multibillion-dollar space station plan

The serial entrepreneur who founded the Mt. Gox crypto exchange and co-founded Ripple has shared new details about his ambitious space station company Vast, which he hopes will help expand the human race into a multi-planetary species. In a March 20 interview with Bloomberg, Jed McCaleb confirmed that Vast is on track to launch Haven-1 — a commercial space station still under construction — into orbit by May 2026. If McCaleb’s startup succeeds, it will be better positioned to win a lucrative contract from the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration to replace the International Space Station source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/ripple-founder-shares-details-multibillion-dollar-space-station-plan?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound