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Astra CEO Chris Kemp shades SpaceX over employee workload and Starbase: “Its more fun than SpaceX, because we’re not on the border of Mexico where they’ll chop your head off if you accidentally take a left turn. And you don’t have to live in a trailer. And we don’t make you work 12 hrs a day..."


“We bought the engine from them, and it was garbage.”…

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