Episode 328: Employee-Rich Combustion

Spaceflight news

— Blue Origin’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

— Blue experienced morale issues related to remote work (cnbc.com)

— An essay was published with sexism and safety allegations (lioness.co) (cnbc.com)

— Eric Berger reports his sources say allegations of sexism go too far (twitter.com/SciGuySpace) (wsj.com)

— FAA say they take the Lioness essay seriously (spacenews.com)

— Legal documents regarding Blue’s HLS bid were FOIA’d (theverge.com)

Brief & Bitter

— Shiyan 10 test satellite fails after launch (spaceflightnow.com)

— SLS likely to slip to 2022 (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Kevin L via email: NASATV’s empty schedule is probably due to the potential government shutdown.

— Ben Hallert via twitter: Blue engines are built in Kent Washington, and a factory is being staffed in Huntsville.

This week in SF history

— 10 Oct, 1967: Outer Space Treaty is put into force (en.wikipedia.org) (unoosa.org) (wiki.org)

— Next week (10/12 - 10/18) in 1999: Strange shares half this with Down. All three accurately describe this event.