Florida Space Workers Face Few Prospects After Shuttle’s End
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Atlantis ended the U.S. space shuttle’s 30-year 135-mission lifespan with a pre-dawn landing in Cape Canaveral, Florida, today, bringing with it two sonic booms and the demise of one of the region’s biggest employers.
About 9,000 people living near the Kennedy Space Center who work for National Aeronautics and Space Administration contractors will lose their jobs, Denise Beasley, a spokeswoman for Brevard Workforce, a county agency that helps space employees find new positions, said in a telephone interview.