Spare Change
So a little over $8600 per dead worker (the remainder should cover the injured). Industrial safety is cheap in California! I assume the families' lawyers will crank the total up.
Lack of training cited in Mojave spaceport blast
California occupational safety inspectors have concluded that Scaled Composites LLC's failure to properly train workers about the dangers of nitrous oxide was a contributory factor to the explosion which last July killed three workers at the company's Mojave testing facility. The victims were testing a rocket motor for …
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@terrible jokes
hilarious, unfortunately it's N20
the lab coat please...
CEO
just spray the CEO's ankles with of liquid nitrogen :)
Hippy crack / just say no!
Especially in railcar quantities.
It's unsurprising that a lot of these high-altitude rocket (sorry, "space") efforts have difficulty getting oxidiser from understandably wary suppliers.
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