The World's First Commercial Space Station Looks Like a Luxury Hotel Inside
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- Oct 10, 2024
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Aluminum for spacecraft
interiors is passé; what space-farers apparently want is wood. That’s the bet from Vast, the makers of Haven-1, the world’s first commercial space station set to be placed in low-Earth orbit by the SpaceX Falcon rocket next year. First paying customers will be getting on board in 2026, and judging by the final designs just released of the station’s cozy interior, they'll feel right at home.
Helping to add softness to an interior previously more focused on function than style, Vast has used fine-grained maple wood—a contemporary favorite of home interior designers, chosen for its ability to add warmth and elegance to any space, and now space space.
Naturally, the maple wood slats are there for aesthetic appeal more than anything else, but Haven-1 has also developed other creature comforts, including a puffy space duvet that should help to encourage a good night's rest—not something easily achieved in space.
“This is not just any old duvet,” says Hillary Coe, Vast’s chief design and marketing officer. “It’s a duvet that inflates, creating this equal pressure up against you which allows for a beautiful, comfortable night’s rest.”
According to Vast, the patent-pending sleep system is roughly the size of a queen bed, and should accommodate side and back-sleepers alike.
“Buzz-cut astronaut-dudes giggle when they come down to our office and see the sleep system—they’d loved to have had one [on their work-a-day missions],” says Coe, who spent five years as head of design at SpaceX before jumping spaceship to Vast. She's also held design positions at Starlink, Google, and Apple.
Vast’s patent-pending signature sleep system is roughly the size of a queen bed.
Courtesy of Vast
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