Posted on 10/01/2010 8:07:16 AM PDT by NRG1973
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla - More than 1,200 NASA contractors will lose their jobs Friday.
It's all a part of massive layoffs as the Space Shuttle program heads toward retirement.
Many of the employees being let go have worked on the historic program since its glory days in the 1980's.
More than 9,000 workers are expected to lose their jobs when the Shuttle program is retired in 2011.
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One government agency that is losing workers.
Yes, but those are government jobs and if most have worked there since the beginning, I am sure their pensions and benefits will be quite nifty.IMHO
The current space shuttle is waaaaay beyond design-life. I believe FORTRAN is used.
One of those “Hope and Change” kind of things.
they’re all being replaced by 3 historians who are researching a complete list of accomplishments by Muslims since the 7th Century.
But I hear they are hiring in the Muslim Outreach department.
FORTRAN, brought back memories from my earlier days at DuPont.
I could get behind a space program that didn’t just send shuttles to NEO and kill frogs and look at crystal formation. If we had a real colonization effort with a base on the moon, or plans for mars that people were serious about, I could get into it. These are bigger-than-life things. But as of now I say scrap the whole thing. Privatizing space completely is the best way to go imho, there’s money to be made, and not just in tourism (though at first, that’s the obvious choice).
They will go ‘abroad’ to work. IS that good?
NASA Forgot How To Go To The Moon!!!
The Technical Record of the Apollo Program? A Space Junkyard
Who is watching out for our best interest in the Space Station?
NASA was preety good when the Germans ran it. Now it is just a make work - muslim outreach govt agency.
Liberalism killed NASA and people voted for this in 2008. Hope and Change.
I predict a crash program to re-train them all as IRS agents
All the old Von Braun German guys died.
I think it was bound to happen no matter who was elected. The Shuttle end date had been set while Bush was in office.
They aren’t needed now that the technology has been shifted to Muslim countries.
Obama has ACORN jobs ready for them.
Science and technology - ptui!
Who needs Science and technology when Marxism is so much more intellectually stimulating?
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