re: Huntsville AL's U.S. Space and Rocket Center facing permanent closure, Goal Exceeded!

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Where is Tesla, Space X, General Electric, Honeywell and the other aerospace players

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Well, I know Honeywell has a program for employees kids to go there for free 2 weeks out of the summer. A leadership type program. However Honeywell has also been having layoffs left and right the last couple of months, furloughing employees, and is planning another round of layoffs in October unless things change. We just lost 5 people from our site Wednesday that took early retirement packages.

That's not counting the 10 or so other people they have let go over the last couple of months, and we are an extremely small facility manpower wise. About 50 operators, ie, maint, and lab people combined. Add in the 35 or so admin/engineers , and that's almost 20% of the manpower at my facility.

Probably wouldn't look to good for them to plop down a large amount of money right now as charity, when people are losing their jobs. I'd imagine some of the other companies you mentioned are in the same boat.

Something like this has Elon Musk written all over it.