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U.S. Space & Rocket Center Undergoes Changes

By Keith Cowing

NASA Watch

February 3, 2011

Filed under U.S. Space & Rocket Center

Alabama space museum reducing workforce again, WHNT
“Alabama’s space museum is cutting more than 10 percent of its work force to reduce costs. The U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville is slashing its full-time payroll from 129 to 113 people at the end of this month. The new CEO of the state-owned attraction, Deborah Barnhart, announced the job cuts to managers on Thursday.”
Employee cuts at U.S. Space and Rocket Center have historian concerned about future of ‘exceptional’ archives, Huntsville Times
“Irene Wilhite, longtime curator of the archives, and her assistant, her son Jamie, learned Thursday they are among 16 full-time Space Center employees being dropped from the payroll.”
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Keith Cowing

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.