NASA Foresees 2-Year Final Shuttle Retirement

By Mark Carreau .

HOUSTON — NASA’s long-running shuttle program will transition quickly into a two-year final retirement phase – marked by thousands of reassignments of federal civil servants and contractor layoffs – once Atlantis touches down at the conclusion of the 12-day STS-135 supply mission to the International Space Station.

“The program will end 30 days after wheel stop,” NASA ...

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