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NASA: Thousands Will Lose Jobs When Shuttle Program Is Retired

POSTED: Wednesday, February 27, 2008
UPDATED: 4:20 pm EST February 28, 2008

For the first time, NASA confirmed what most workers at Kennedy Space Center have feared -- thousands of people will lose their jobs when the space shuttle program is retired.

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin told a Senate subcommittee Wednesday that as NASA prepares for the future, they will need different people for different jobs.

"At the Kennedy Space Center specifically, we will see -- after the shuttle retires -- a net reduction in contractor force of at least several thousand," Griffin said.

"I am a Florida native and my home county is Brevard County and we don't want to go through what we went through after the shutdown of Apollo," Sen. Bill Nelson said.

When the Apollo program shut down, more than 25,000 people at KSC lost their jobs.

Griffin told Nelson that he will offer his first projection of possible jobs cuts when he goes before Congress on March 24.

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