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   SpaceX once left its rocket engineers on   
   02 Mar 21 10:29:45   
   
   Such a kind boss.   
      
   "SpaceX engineers were living and working on Omelek, part of the Marshall   
   Islands' Kwajalein Atoll, because that's the spot the company chose to   
   escape the US Air Force. The Air Force had indefinitely delayed the   
   company's efforts to launch from California. But the US Army, which   
   oversaw the atoll, was friendlier to SpaceX's plans. Being close to the   
   equator also made it easier to reach orbit.   
      
   However, during that first year on the island, Berger writes, "logistics were   
   poor." Supply deliveries were often delayed, and the workers sometimes   
   went without food.   
      
   So one day in the fall of 2005, tensions boiled over into mutiny. The   
   employees went on strike to force an emergency supply drop, and were   
   eventually quelled with chicken wings and cigarettes."   
      
   See:   
      
   https://www.yahoo.com/news/spacex-once-left-rocket-engineers-170705974.html   
      
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