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Tuesday, June 29, 2010


Turns out the other shoe is about to drop with Barry's new NASA plan, and that plan is laying off contractors at JSC:
Workers at Bastion and elsewhere are caught in a growing conflict between Congress, which has banned NASA from canceling any part of Constellation, and agency leaders who have directed program managers to scale back their work while preserving the parts that would fit into the new space policy proposed by President Obama.

The administration wants to turn to commercial companies for taking future astronauts to orbit while taking a hiatus from any ambitious missions to send astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit. Yet Congress has not agreed to the scuttling of Constellation and added a clause in this year’s federal budget that prohibited NASA from canceling the program or starting a new one without Congressional assent.
Well who knows what's going to happen. Happen after all the contractors at JSC are laid off.



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