Shuttle Layoffs

Read this morning that layoffs are beginning. Also read that Ames is offering buyouts to employees.

With retirement of the space shuttle program expected next year after just nine more flights, NASA's managers Thursday announced the first major round of job losses, saying 160 contractor workers would face layoffs Friday, the first of up to 900 jobs that will be lost between now and the end of the fiscal year.

That said, that was the plan as focus shifts to exploration...