Humanity’s next outpost in orbit may come from a warehouse in Long Beach.
Vast, an aerospace company headquartered near the city’s airport, announced this month it’s nearly finished building out the last of the three warehouses on its 189,00-square-foot campus, where workers are constructing what they hope will be the first commercial space station.
At a ceremony to mark the milestone, Long Beach officials and Vast engineers, ebullient over the company’s progress, said it epitomized the city’s “Space Beach” culture of forward-looking companies that challenge conventional technologies in the aerospace sector…