ANN REALTIME REPORTING 08.02.08 1830 EDT: After
a 16-month hiatus, Space Exploration Technologies plans to try
again and launch its Falcon 1 rocket sometime Saturday evening.
Job Cuts Begin In Fall, Will Continue Through September
2010
The first major round of layoffs tied to the September 2010
retirement of the space shuttle fleet was announced Friday.
Lockheed Martin informed its Michoud Operations workforce employee
reductions would begin in the fall of 2008 and continue through
September 2010 as a result of the build-out of external tanks to
support the planned fly-out of the Space Shuttle program.