{"id":18742,"date":"2025-03-24T11:01:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T11:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=18742"},"modified":"2025-03-24T11:01:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T11:01:45","slug":"crypto-tycoon-joins-forces-with-elon-musks-spacex-to-launch-first-private-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=18742","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Tycoon Joins Forces With Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX To Launch First Private Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Cryptocurrency billionaire <strong>Jed McCaleb<\/strong> is spearheading an ambitious effort to build the world&#8217;s first privately developed space station and send it into Earth&#8217;s orbit. The story\u2014he is prepared to risk $1 billion of his fortune to fund the mission.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened: <\/strong>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2025-03-20\/crypto-windfall-is-funding-vast-s-space-station-ambitions\">interview<\/a> with Bloomberg, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/21\/05\/21278600\/former-ripple-exec-sells-255m-worth-of-xrp-in-may-alone\">co-founder<\/a> of <strong>Ripple Labs <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/xrp\/usd\">XRP<\/a>) and the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox said, &#8220;It&#8217;s super important that people take this leap from where we are today to this potential world where there&#8217;s a lot of people living off the Earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McCaleb&#8217;s California-based aerospace startup <strong>Vast<\/strong> is at the center of the mission, closely collaborating with <strong>Elon Musk\u2019s<\/strong> <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> on the expedition to replace NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/in.benzinga.com\/general\/space\/25\/02\/43875844\/spacex-ceo-elon-musk-calls-for-deorbiting-space-station-ahead-of-timeline-in-2027-lets-go-to-mars\">International Space Station,<\/a> which is scheduled to be decommissioned by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Vast is assembling the module, just big enough to fit four people, using SpaceX-developed components, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/general\/space\/25\/03\/44454270\/crypto-tycoon-joins-forces-with-elon-musks-spacex-to-launch-first-private-space-station\" alt=\"Crypto\" tycoon joins forces with elon musk spacex to launch first private space station>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrency billionaire Jed McCaleb is spearheading an ambitious effort to build the world&#8217;s first privately developed space station and send it into Earth&#8217;s orbit. The story\u2014he is prepared to risk $1 billion of his fortune to fund the mission. What happened: In an interview with Bloomberg, the co-founder of Ripple Labs (CRYPTO: XRP) and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-18742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}