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This is a normal post Whatever happened to the inflatable space hotels company?
laid off all employees last March
(, Tue 2 Feb 2021, 12:59, Reply)
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?
(, Tue 2 Feb 2021, 14:46, Reply)
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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.
(, Tue 2 Feb 2021, 15:54, Reply)
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.
(, Tue 2 Feb 2021, 17:13, Reply)
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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.
(, Tue 2 Feb 2021, 20:53, Reply)
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.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 14:59, Reply)
This is a normal post They’ve had a re-do?
They’ve certainly kept that quiet.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 16:42, Reply)
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.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 19:09, Reply)
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.
(, Tue 2 Feb 2021, 16:56, Reply)
This is a normal post Sewers OBV

(, Tue 2 Feb 2021, 20:01, Reply)