ALERT: 23,000 now expected to lose jobs after shuttle retirement

Ok, stupid question time. I they retire the Shuttle Program how do they get supplies or astronauts to the ISS?

Ok, stupid question time. I they retire the Shuttle Program how do they get supplies or astronauts to the ISS?


Ok, stupid question time. If they retire the Shuttle Program how do they get supplies or astronauts to the ISS?

Ok, stupid question time. I they retire the Shuttle Program how do they get supplies or astronauts to the ISS?


Ok, stupid question time. If they retire the Shuttle Program how do they get supplies or astronauts to the ISS?


Same way they've been doing it for years... the Russians ship supplies in Soyuz.

23,000 now expected to lose
jobs after shuttle retirement

BY RICK NEALE • FLORIDA TODAY • February
26, 2010

[link to www.floridatoday.com]

VIERA — The local economic forecast tied to
President Barack Obama's proposed NASA budget
keeps growing bleaker.

Revised projections now show that about 23,000
workers at and around Kennedy Space Center will
lose their jobs because of the shuttles' retirement
and the new proposal to cancel the development of
new rockets and spacecraft.

IN-DEPTH SPECIAL REPORT: Shuttle Shutdown
[link to www.floridatoday.com]

That sum includes 9,000 "direct" space jobs and --
conservatively speaking -- 14,000 "indirect" jobs at
hotels, restaurants, retail stores and others that
depend on activity at the space center, said Lisa
Rice, Brevard Workforce president.

The organization's earlier estimate of 7,000 direct
jobs reflected just the retirement of the shuttle
program. The updated numbers also include the
cancellation of Project Constellation and other
initiatives as outlined in the president's 2011
budget, Rice said.

"Our unemployment rate is going to skyrocket," she
warned Thursday during a five-hour Brevard County
Commission space workshop. Much conversation
centered on the future of human space launches
from KSC, and attendees heaped criticism on
Obama's strategy.

Mark Nappi is vice president of launch and recovery
systems for United Space Alliance, NASA's prime
contractor for shuttle operations. As things stand t
oday, he predicted that more than 4,500 of the
company's 5,500 Florida workers will lose their
jobs. Geographically speaking, Nappi said 4,850
USA workers live in Brevard, including 3,250 in the
northern half of the county.

Commissioners asked what the county can do to
recruit commercial launch companies from
California, Virginia, Texas and elsewhere.

"The market will drive where space vehicles are
launched from," Nappi said. "And if we believe in
Florida that we have the birthright to spaceflight
operations, we're going to be the Pittsburgh of the
steel industry and the Detroit of the car industry."


State Rep. Ritch Workman, founder of the Florida
Space Caucus, denounced "this horrible president's
budget."

Workman said that even if KSC somehow lures five
leading commercial crew transport companies --
SpaceX, Orbital Sciences Corp., The Boeing Co.,
Lockheed Martin and Sierra Nevada Corp. -- from
other states, that would account for only about
2,400 jobs.

"And we're talking about putting humans on private
spacecraft. That is not going to happen for a
decade," the Melbourne Republican said.

Gov. Charlie Crist's proposed budget includes $8.7
million for the development of the years-delayed
Exploration Park, a proposed research complex that
may someday employ 1,750 people, said Leigh Holt,
county government relations manager. Crist's
budget also earmarks $3.9 million to refurbish
Launch Complex 46, Holt said.

On Thursday, the county was scheduled to roll out
an updated version of SaveSpace.us, a Web site that
touts a pro-NASA letter-writing campaign. The site
Advertisement has picked up more than 11,100 fans on Facebook
and nearly 200 followers on Twitter, county
spokeswoman Kimberly Prosser said.

By a 4-0 vote, commissioners also decided to offer
Pauley Management Inc. a new federal lobbying
contract for space, transportation and other matters.

Contact Neale at 242-3638or rneale@floridatoday.
com.

As usually... Everyone overlooks the fact that this whole Beast System is a pyramid strcuture that is interdependent. When NASA goes so do all the jobs made by the money they spent locally AND all the jobs created to make things for them like special fasteners, certain textiles, various metal fabricators, etc. It extends outward exponentially, even into other countries.

bot hit.

whistleblower. nasa space guys out of work and they know top secret shit. cool find, OP

Thought everyone wanted to make government smaller......

So I guess a moon landing is outta the question......

bot hit.

whistleblower. nasa space guys out of work and they know top secret shit. cool find, OP