Wednesday, June 07, 2006
NASA has announced the Kennedy Space Center would play a big role in the space agency's future.
Yesterday we learned launches and landings for the next generation of spacecraft might be managed from the Cape.
What we did not study though is if any jobs will be cut.
It is feared many would be left out of work as the space agency looks to save money to disburse for ambitious plans to return to the moon and possibly on to mars.
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said, "We're working as hard as we can. We are paying attention to the issue of how do we shift people who have been working on one set of tasks which are in the future not being done, onto other new and interesting work, that is exciting, and represents NASA's future, but is new."
Griffin says there is no schedule for the worker changes.
In other NASA news, NASA says it would do more work on the space shuttle Discovery.
Technicians would replace an electronics box on one of the orbiter's solid rocket boosters.
During routine testing last week, engineers establish a faulty electronics unit near some circuits. It's a device that serves as the main communications link between the booster and shuttle computers.
Electronics boxes were switched during at least two preceding missions.
The work shouldn't affect the July 1st launch date.
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