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For Space Shuttle Workers, The End Is Here, Discovery News
"The company previously shed 743 positions under its shuttle processing contract during layoffs in October 2009 and this past June. The latest wave cuts about 15 percent of the firm's 8,100-member shuttle workforce, with more layoffs coming next year."
More Than 1,300 Space Shuttle Workers Get Layoff Notices, Space.com
"More than 1,300 space shuttle workers received layoff notices this week from United Space Alliance - a NASA contractor that is cutting 15 percent of its 8,100-person workforce ahead of the shuttle fleet's retirement next year. Layoff notices were issued to 1,394 USA employees in all, company spokesperson Kari Fluegel told SPACE.com. The layoffs take effect Oct. 1 and were announced earlier this month by USA officials."
Shuttle contractor to lay off more than 400 TX workers, KTRK
"In all, 1,397 employees will be laid off effective October 1. That includes 478 employees in Texas, 14 in Alabama and 905 in Florida. All employees will receive severance and job training for other fields."
What do you expect? Kill the Shuttle! Kill the Shuttle! Kill the Shuttle! The advocates of this return to Apollo insist on Killing the Shuttle, living with the 5,6,7, or even 8 year gap in manned space flight only to return to space at over 1 billion dollars a shot with half the sew cpacity and none of its cargo. If you are going to kill the Shuttle, the workers are no longer needed.