Job Cuts Ahead

NASA Work Force Projections Previewed, Aerospace Daily

“Subcommittee Chairman Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) pressed Griffin on the issue of sustaining NASA’s human spaceflight work force during the downtime between the shuttle’s retirement and the introduction of the Orion and Ares I vehicles, projected for early 2015. “We don’t want to go through what we went through after the shutdown of Apollo,” Nelson said.”

Senators clash with NASA chief on speed of space transition, Congress Daily

“Griffin also said the shutdown of the shuttle program is likely to lead to the loss of thousands of NASA jobs at Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.”