Projections show that President Obama’s proposed budget for NASA, which would cancel development of new rockets and spacecraft, would cost 23,000 workers their jobs at Kennedy Space Center and outlying areas. The total includes 9,000 “direct” space jobs and 14,000 “indirect” jobs that include hotels and restaurants, said Lisa Rice, president of Brevard Workforce. The organization [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 18, 2010
On Friday 36 Boeing employees working for NASA’s space shuttle program at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida lost their jobs. 300 Boeing employees work on site in Florida at the center. Most of these jobs will be cut when the shuttles are retired this year. 7,000 space industry workers will lose their jobs by the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 6, 2009
NASA contractor ATK Space Systems will initiate 550 layoffs as they begin to phase-out of the space shuttle program. After the layoffs, ATK Space Systems will be still be home to around 3,900 employees between three different locations in Utah. Employees were aware of the downsizing back in July. Over 130 of them accepted voluntary [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 17, 2009
Lockheed Martin will cut 800 workers from its space systems unit by the end of the year. The unit supplies advanced systems for national security and military, civil government and commercial customers. Its products include space flight systems, navigation, meteorological & communications satellites, and ballistic missiles. The layoffs target technical, managerial and administrative jobs at plants in [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 14, 2009
United Space Alliance, NASA’s primary contractor for the space shuttle program, will lay off 400 employees in October, as the program winds down. The final shuttle launch will be in September 2010. Layoffs may be avoided through early retirements. More than half of the jobs targeted are in Florida. United Space Alliance is a spaceflight operations company, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Orbital Sciences Corporation is breaking ground on a new facility at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Atlantic, Virginia, which will develop, assemble and test the Taurus II rocket. Two-hundred and fifty people will be hired for construction, and the completed facility will employ 400 high-tech workers. Orbital Sciences expects its liquid fuel Taurus II rocket to launch [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 2, 2009
The National Aeronautics & Space Administration laid off 160 manufacturing workers this week, the first round of 900 job eliminations as the space agency winds down the Space Shuttle program. Eight final space missions remain for the three remaining space shuttles; the program will close down at the end of 2010. The layoffs this week affect workers [...]
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