Lockheed Martin, the builder of the space shuttle external tank, has announced that it is beginning to distribute lay-off pick slips among the 2,445 strong tank-building team at Huntsville, AL, the Kennedy Space Center, FL, and New Orleans, LA.The job losses will begin in October and continue as the final 10-missions of the space shuttle are completed in mid-2010. If a decision is made to add an additional space shuttle mission in 2010 by the Congress this year, it could be challenging, if not impossible, to get the external tank that would be needed to fuel a final launch from the Kennedy Space Center.
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