Farewell, Shuttle Workers

NASA contractors are carrying out long-planned layoffs in the wake of the final flight of the space shuttle. The day after Atlantis knifed through predawn Florida skies on July 21 to touch down in the final act of a spirited 30-year program, the shuttle program dropped 3,200 of the 5,500 contract...

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