How is that going to affect employment in the Houston area?
'But the changes have angered some members of Congress, particularly from Texas, the location of the Johnson Space Center, and Florida, the location of the Kennedy Space Center.'
“How is that going to affect employment in the Houston area?”
I believe there are some 6000 contractors working on Shuttle and Constellation programs. If this goes through all of them are toast. Probably affect up to several thousand others that support those directly employed on those programs. In other words it will be a space employment massacree that will exceed that which occurred at the end of the Apollo Program.
We will still have ISS, and the JSC Civil Servants can keep themselves occupied doing the “future studies” for the follow-on programs that will replace Constellation, but there will be a lot of unemployed rocket scientists (really engineers, but we have to play to trope).
I understand India is looking to jump-start its manned space program . . .