which he serves. They feel MUCH better with more self-esteem
now that NASA has no plans and just layoffs
along with the rest of America's post-Obama destruction and pain.
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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Don't forget all those important global warming observations!.....
If NASA had committed to a specific space shuttle replacement back after the loss of Challenger, they would not be closing down the manned program now. Instead, they farted around for twenty years. This one is not Obama's fault.
With stops at Disneyworld and another to be determined in Polk County, which is about the midway point and will also be home to the new LegoLand Florida.
We must always remember that we beat the Russians to the moon because our German rocket scientists were better than their German rocket scientists.
Not Government jobs directly. These people worked for United Space Alliance, the prime contractor for NASA at KSC.
I thought they were needed for the Muslim-outreach program?
We are losing two generations of space-flight experts. We probably will never recover that knowledge.
Oh-Oh.
Don’t worry, they are being transfered to the new “Muslim Self-Esteem Administration”.
'In 2010, the Space Shuttle -- after nearly 30 years of duty -- will be retired from service.'
I agree completely. Not even Obama is worthy of the loss of NASA. It galls me that in about 10 years we build the technology to go to the moon and back, and for the last 40 years all we did was ride around in circles and come home. Its so stupid no fiction writer could make it believable if it hadn’t happened.
Government [NASA] workers will usually get the option of transfer to another program or paid a bonus for taking early retirement.
Now the unmanned probes are awe inspiring. Cassini, Galileo, the one that smashed the comet, parachute into Titan's atmosphere, rovers on Mars. All cool stuff and relatively cheap, with spin off technologies. Then there's the observation birds and ground technology finding new planets on other star systems. This part of space exploration has exceeded expectations. We have lead most of it and should continue to do so.
They are a thorn in Barky's side. They keep failing to meet their Muslim hiring requirements.
Fortran, Sperry Univac mainframes and Perkin Elmer 3260 minicomputers last time I walked those hallways (admittedly, over a quarter century ago - but I bet it's still the same).
They are NOT government jobs. They are the contractors who actually do the work.
Government employees will hardly be touched by these cuts.
I’m a little surprised at the attitude that we’ve been wasting our time for the last 25+ years with the Space Shuttle.
We’ve accomplished something pretty extraordinary with the construction of the ISS. We were on a path that would have led us to much easier access to space. We have to develop some sort of air/space craft that can fly to and from space again and again, not just one or two shots and throw it away. We designed and built a space station to prove the technology required to build a true spaceship that can fly to other planets.
If we are going to fly to other planets we have to know how this technology and humans fare in space over long periods of time. These are not the little tin cans we sent to the moon and back, but rather intricate machines that could have led to the development of the vehicles we need to explore our galaxy.
I’ve said this before on another thread, but, which makes more sense, an experimental platform, close to earth and rescue, to test our technology and see how humans fare in space over long periods of time, or a capsule arriving at Mars after 3 months, only to find out something was wrong with no way of fixing it, or helping the astronauts?
We had quite a problem with the flood lights in the cargo bay, they would short out in space but no matter how closely we duplicated what they were exposed to in space we could not replicate the problem.
I’m one of the lucky ones, I’ll be coming to work Monday, but I am losing quite a few friends today. We are not government employees, we work for a company that was awarded a contract by NASA.
I do wish someone had had the foresight to propose a follow up program to the Shuttle that would have expounded on everything we’ve learn over the last 25+ years, but...
I'm sure all these people are going to be voting Democrat on November 2. Yeah...sure...right. A vote for these Democrat bastards is a vote to distroy America!!
Sorry to hear.
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