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

Mt. Gox and Ripple co-founder Jed McCaleb is looking to send his company Vast’s commercial space station “Haven-1” into orbit and win a NASA contract in 2026.

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. Contracts are expected to be handed out in mid-2026.

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