Massive Layoffs Ahead?

The Constellation program needs to be more of a lunar base program rather than a lunar exploratory program preceding an eventual lunar base program.

Funding for the Ares V heavy lift vehicle needs to accelerated. Why wait until 2019 or 2020 to return to the moon. Lets have a prefab base already ready launched by the Ares V heavy lift vehicle by 2016. It would be a great symbol of accomplishment for the Obama administration, if he gets a second term, to end his years in the White House with a return to the moon with the first components of a permanent lunar base already there. Let's get going!

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Gee! And isn't it about time for Aviation Week to print the industry's annual rant (for about the last 15-20 years) that we can't find enough young people to go into the aerospace & defense industries. I wonder why we can't interest more young people to go into the industry? It wouldn't have to do with these periodic massacres, would it?

Ad LEO! Ad Luna! Ad Ares! Ad Astra!
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(Who will observe...didn't say celebrate...the 20th anniversary of being "doorknobbed" from the industry! :

"Periodic massacres?" Really?

I seem to recall a massive increase in defense/aerospace spending since, oh, 2002 or so. NASA hasn't seen much, but there has been plenty of employment, and Boeing has been a key beneficiary of the defense spending windfall that's come with the "war on terror."

The most telling indication that this is really just whining: "Shaw acknowledged that some layoffs, possibly up to half, were probably inevitable given a shift from operational work on the shuttle to more developmental work on its replacement." That's from the article.

As I have said before the only thing NASA wants to do is replace the shuttle with a little safer and a smaller vehicle which is less expensive to operate, a people shuttle to the ISS.