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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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Tue 2 Feb 2021, 17:13,
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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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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 2 Feb 2021, 20:53,
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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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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 14:59,
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They’ve had a re-do?
They’ve certainly kept that quiet.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 16:42,
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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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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 19:09,
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