Not quite a scoop this week, but I did write an exclusive on a five-month-old startup called Layup Parts, which has closed a $9 million financing round led by Founders Fund. The company wants to bring automation to composite parts manufacturing, in the same way that Protolabs and Xometry have transformed CNC machining, for example.
Instead of recommending something to read this week, I'm going to recommend something to watch: this fantastic 30-minute video from the great Everyday Astronaut. It takes a deep dive into the first Polaris Dawn mission and the new spacesuits the private astronauts will be wearing, designed by SpaceX.
We all know (and love) the International Space Station, but before there was the ISS there was a little orbiting platform known as Skylab. And 50 years ago, on May 14, 1973, Skylab lifted off on the last Saturn V rocket.
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