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I'm wondering what this does for the LA economy. If SpaceX is successful in it's multiple missions, both Mars and global Internet, it would create many high-pay
by 11thEarlOfMar 9y ago
I'm wondering what this does for the LA economy. If SpaceX is successful in it's multiple missions, both Mars and global Internet, it would create many high-paying jobs and begin to restore the losses from aerospace [0].
[0] See slides 6 & 7:
https://laedc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/KimberlyRitterMartinez_LAEDC.pdf https://laedc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/KimberlyRitterM...
- bhauer 9y agoWell, certainly SpaceX has done a lot for the city I call home, Hawthorne. It makes me happy when I hear their mission control cited as "Hawthorne Control." We also now have the Boring Company test tunnel going in under 120th Street. Some of the people I work with joke about the tunnel cutting their commute from Hawthorne to El Segundo from 5 minutes to 2 minutes. (Of course this tunnel is just for testing, but it's still fun to joke about.)
- greglindahl 9y agoMost of the job losses in that slide deck are from automating production and are never coming back -- SpaceX's manufacturing is as automated as you'd expect for their production volume. Also, it's worth noting that SpaceX's Starlink folks are in the Seattle area.
- shas3 9y agoRockets have been made in and around LA for ages. It is a defense industry hub, arguably the biggest outside DC area. Overview: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-socal-aerospace-20160723-snap-story.html http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-socal-aerospace-201607...