As a result, Vast Space faces competition from another private company, Axiom Space, which also plans to build its own commercial orbital station. Axiom has already completed three private missions involving non-professional astronauts to the ISS and is preparing for a fourth mission called Ax-4, scheduled for launch in spring 2025. All of these missions utilized SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft.
Previously, Vast Space ordered the launch of its single-module space station Haven-1 on Falcon 9 in 2025, along with a subsequent crewed mission aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft.