New KSC Work Expected to Lessen Impact of Post-Shuttle Layoffs

摘要

NASA is forecasting Kennedy Space Center (KSC) will lose fewer jobs when the space shuttle retires than the worst-case scenario figures the U.S. space agency published in March. NASA told Congress earlier this year that a survey of space shut-tle contractors showed that as many as 6,400 workers could be given pink slips when the shuttle retires from service in 2010. But NASA officials stressed that 6,400 was a worst-case scenario that failed to take into consideration the hundreds or thousands of new jobs that would be created at Kennedy as NASA gets rolling on the new spacecraft and rockets it needs to return to the Moon.