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This is a link post Are they a cult? A pyramid scheme? Just a bit enthusiastic?
Some of their projections for market growth look insane (e.g. space tourism being worth $93bn in 2030), but their engineering stuff looks legit.
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This is a normal post Yeah, and no mention of a docking computer!

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This is a normal post o7

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I'd completely forgotten about that game. Have they released space legs yet?
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This is a normal post Nah
Coming Real Soon Now ™
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This is a normal post I'm on the fence. Do the rooms have a corby trouser press or not?

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This is a normal post In space, no-one can see your crease.

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This is a normal post For cheese toasties?

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This is a normal post vapour ware
this company reminds me of Nicola. nothing but hot air
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This is a normal post Will your opinion change if/when they launch their demonstration robot?

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This is a normal post Venture capital rinsing operation

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This is a normal post Whatever happened to the inflatable space hotels company?
laid off all employees last March
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This is a normal post Supposedly due to Covid though. I think they were still hiring seamstresses up to that point too.
We need a gender neutral version of that word that people understand. Seamsters?
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Lots of viable companies have been operating through covid.

I'm also thinking they need to pivot pretty quickly to making inflatable surface habitats, because Starship coming online in the next few years will demolish the requirement for inflatable orbital modules.
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This is a normal post American space companies tend to be owned by ultra-capitalist bastards who see workers as a necessary inconvenience.
Firing everybody with the possibly empty promise to rehire is cheaper than furlough, or being sued by an employee who catches the virus.

That said, I got the impression that their workers were all in clean-suits anyway, which isn't very different from working in full PPE.
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None of the other space companies seem to have slowed down much, if at all. After all SpaceX seem to still be blowing prototypes up, Boeing still seem to be hoovering up the dollars and delivering nothing. All business as usual.
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This is a normal post Bigelow isn't a launch provider.
Did you see the successful redo of the static fire test for SLS? I think only a few tens of thousands saw the stream, compared to the million or two who tuned in for the initial failure.
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This is a normal post They’ve had a re-do?
They’ve certainly kept that quiet.
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This is a normal post Yeah... No commentary, no announcers, no nothing, just the stream randomly popped up in my feed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaJTDvOIXbk

Looks like they got a good 8 minutes, as planned.
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This is a normal post They'd have to be happy about the name change, if the teamsters get unhappy you can end up in a very sticky situation so goodness knows where you'd be with the seamsters.
Rumoured to form part of a well embroidered cushion set perhaps.
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This is a normal post Sewers OBV

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