Former NASA astronaut Drew Feustel now leads the astronaut training program for the private space company Vast, which aims to put its Haven-1 station into orbit in May.

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Former NASA astronaut Drew Feustel leads astronaut training at Vast, a private space company planning to launch Haven-1, the first commercial space station, in May 2026. Feustel designed an 11-month training program for paying customers who will spend 10 days aboard the station, covering SpaceX Dragon operations, emergency procedures, and daily living in microgravity. Haven-1 serves as a temporary facility before Haven-2 launches in 2028, aiming to provide research access to nations and organizations as NASA decommissions the ISS around 2030. The program focuses on democratizing space access beyond the traditional government-backed astronaut programs.

The astronaut training tourists to fly in the world’s first commercial space station