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SC Rocket: I'm not sure of the timing, but didn't the CA electrical power fiasco impact the decision to move?

My company worked with a number of aerospace firms and I know that Raytheon and Boeing were hit with enormous power bills and they had to cut their shift operations markedly. Moving operations that support JSC to JSC doesn't sound like a bad decision. That is not to say that other decisions might have been stupid.

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I'm sure that the power crisis in CA had some play in moving the program from CA to TX... since the decision was made in order to save costs, it certainly had to come into the equation.

While moving a program that supports JSC to JSC sounds like a good decision - it only makes sense if you look at engineers as a "commodity" and that one engineer is equally capable as another. I personally don't think this is the case, since there is so much "tribal knowledge" that a person gets by working on a program for 20 years that can't be picked up by an engineer right out of school. The fact that over 3/4 of the staff had to be replaced as a direct result of the move suggests the experience level of the analysts who were making these "life or death" decisions.