Does anyone actually think it'll fly in 2025 at all at this point?

Throwing the lander and suits for A3 under the bus really distracts from how badly Orion and EGS are doing. This is absolutely pathetic work by Jacobs on the ground systems.

Yup, they actually just posted a great compilation

https://x.com/vast/status/1844790274486362311

I love how much Vast is self funding and actually doing while the other Commercial LEO Destinations teams are polishing their PowerPoints and focusing on NASA reviews and payment milestones.

A giant capsule with an aerospike on the bottom. No flips and flaps needed.

It looks like some small pieces blew off the booster and there was a little fire at the end, but they recovered it and can work on solving that for the next flight. What a catch.

The engines glowing made me reeeeeal nervous

I wouldn't have even cared about NS if it was the only thing happening today

Stoke is comfortable knowing they have the safer concept for reentry

Yohoho raise the jolly roger

Devil's advocate here- members of those groups aren't neutral and would stand to lose money if this passes.

The delays suck, but at least NASA isn't paying them extra for the terrible planning and engineering.

Nice. Hopefully SpaceX shares a blog post with more information.

In the walls along the tunnel?

This is also just their first and smallest module, and it isn't meant to be permanently occupied. I'm thinking of it more like taking an RV on a 2 week road trip.

Their longer term plans get more ambitious, starting with a module sized for Starship, then connecting a bunch of those. Their comparisons are also helpful, like showing that Haven-1 is like a Salyut station.

https://www.vastspace.com/roadmap

Understood, but I'm asking why it wasn't an approved last ditch backup plan until now. Did they do more testing or sumulation recently? Is NASA more risk averse after Starliner and digging deeper into backup backups?

Power transmission, so hot right now? I've now seen companies working on power transmission from

Earth orbit to orbit

Earth orbit to surface

Lunar orbit to surface

Lunar surface to surface

I wonder what changed to get it approved after all this time.

The interiors of Haven-1 vs Lunar Gateway is like Dragon vs Starliner. This looks great. I'm really hoping they have a successful demo mission and get plenty of customers.

Extra fuel needs aside, if you park it higher and it breaks up...

I'm really looking forward to the new class of heavy lift launchers enabling probes with more delta V to speed up these transits.