Final Haven-1 Space Station Design Unveiled
Vast Plans to Launch Sometime Next Year
The interior design features aboard the Haven-1 commercial space station have been unveiled by Vast. The inaugural station combines the functionality of its state-of-the-art facilities for scientific research, technological advancement, and global collaboration in low-Earth orbit (LEO) with its "human-centric" design.
"Creating an environment that is both highly efficient and naturally comforting leads to totally new results."
Peter Russell-Clarke
Vast plans to launch Haven-1 in 2025. Their specific focus is on ensuring form and function merge to provide greater comfort and quality of life for long-term missions. The Haven-1 interior design is warm and welcoming, while the exterior extends this design element by introducing a key new exterior element: a centralized window, allowing astronauts to experience a full view of Earth.
Haven-1’s human-centric industrial design was guided by Peter Russell-Clarke, who has shaped some of Apple's most iconic products. "Astronauts living in zero gravity pose unique design challenges. Creating an environment that is both highly efficient and naturally comforting leads to totally new results. Haven-1 interiors are unprecedented, precisely engineered and sensitively designed to ensure its occupants thrive in space," said Russell-Clarke.
Andrew Feustel, a veteran NASA astronaut with over 23 years of experience who has logged over 225 days in space on the ISS, played a critical role in advising the team as they developed the interior. “I’ve flown three missions to space, and we are learning from those experiences and innovating to improve the way we can live and work on a space station," he said. "From communication and connectivity, to private space and interacting with others aboard, to advancing human progress on Earth and beyond, every detail has been designed with the astronaut experience at the core of our work.”
Astronauts visiting and working aboard Haven-1 will be afforded several amenities, including:
Private crew quarters slightly larger than the crew quarters aboard the ISS that will offer astronauts a space to rest and recharge.
The Common Area is at the station's core, a multifunctional hub where the crew can collaborate on the latest science and innovations, gather for communal meals, exercise, and relax. The expansive observation window delivers a vantage point with a singular, breathtaking view of Earth.
A resistance band system in the Common Area has body and station anchors for customized exercise routines targeting bone, muscular, and cardiovascular fitness. The system is capable of both linear and rotational resistance exercises, focusing on both upper and lower-body musculoskeletal health.
The Haven-1 Lab, the first microgravity research, development, and manufacturing platform on a commercial space station. Behind the forward wall, 10 Middeck Locker Equivalent (MLE) payload slots are available for innovations that support the progress of life on Earth and advance the future of human spaceflight.
"So much of our learning on ISS explores how living in microgravity affects the human body, both physically and psychologically — and one takeaway I’ve had is that intuitive design isn’t a luxury in that regard: it’s key to ensuring astronauts can work and live in space seamlessly," Feustel said. "To see Haven-1’s design solve many of the challenges we faced aboard the ISS, and to use the progress we made there to ensure we can do this long-term while caring for ourselves is just extraordinary.”