Ripple co-founder Jed McCaleb is investing $1 billion into his aerospace company, Vast Space, to build a private space station.Vast's first space station, Haven-1, is set to launch in May 2026 aboard SpaceX's Falcon9 rocket.Vast aims to compete with SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Axiom Space in the future of human space exploration.McCaleb, with an estimated net worth of $3.2 billion, is self-funding the project and is investing $1 billion from his own money.