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[–] Wren@lemmy.today 69 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

Ever heard of Big Deal Custom Cases? They're a company in Winnipeg, Manitoba who started out making road cases for musicians before diversifying into laptops, field equipment, basically anything breakable anyone needed to carry from one place to another.

Imagine what they thought when NASA phoned them up to build giant cases to carry the sails for the James Webb Space Telescope from the manufacturer to their headquarters.

[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Probably

huh, that is right up our alley, but were kinda always felt that there's a secret echelon of “really professional companies” that gets contracted by NASA

[–] AlfredoJohn@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 days ago

For US government contracts that secret echelon is called the lowest bidder lol

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