Nearly 250 Shuttle Workers To Depart USA

HOUSTON — United Space Alliance, NASA’s shuttle prime contractor, will lay off 248 workers on Jan. 7 in response to the looming retirement of NASA’s three-decade-long space shuttle program. The reduction will leave the Houston-based joint venture with about 6,250 workers to fly out two and possibly...

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