The Party Is Over at KSC

NASA: Up To 6,400 Job Losses at KSC When Shuttle Retires, Orlando Sentinel

“In the bleakest employment forecast for Kennedy Space Center yet, a NASA report due out on Tuesday estimates that as many as 6,400 contractors could lose their jobs at KSC by 2011 right after the space shuttle is retired. With no rockets to launch, the KSC workforce, whose primary mission is to prepare NASA spacecraft for liftoff, is expected to go from 8,000 contract jobs today to between 1,600 and 2,300 in 2011.”

NASA To Hold News Briefing on the Space Shuttle to Constellation Workforce Transition Report

“NASA will hold a teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, April 1, to discuss a report to Congress on the agency’s workforce strategy while transitioning from the Space Shuttle Program to the Constellation Program.

The briefing participants are:
– Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator, Space Operations Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington
– Rick Gilbrech, associate administrator, Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters”