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Oct 4, 2009 11:58 am US/Eastern
More Than 200 Space Shuttle Workers Pink Slipped
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The space shuttle Discovery touches down in the Mojave Desert on Sept. 11, 2009, at Edwards Air Force Base near Rosamond, Calif., ending a 13 day-mission to the International Space Station.
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In anticipation of the end of space shuttle program late next year, more than 250 shuttle contract workers received their pink slips Saturday.
This was not the first round of terminations concerning those who work in the shuttle program.
In the last week 70 security workers at Cape Canaveral Air Force station and a handful at rocket-maker United Launch Alliance were laid off. Tracy Yates, a spokeswoman for United Space Alliance, which services the shuttle for NASA, said the remaining six missions scheduled before the end of 2010 will be harmed by the layoffs.
Officials estimate that 7,000 jobs will be lost in the space program when the shuttle progam is shut down.
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