NASA Studies Center Closure

Story on proposed NASA budget at:
"http://www.spacetoday.net/"
includes this bit:

"NASA will also begin studying this year whether the
agency should close one of its field centers."

Does anyone know which Center is on the block?

- Ed Kyle

Not HQ, KSC, JSC, or JPL, of course. That
leaves the following.

Ames
Dryden
Glenn
Goddard
Langley
Marshall
Stennis

Ames and Glenn seem vulnerable to
me.

- Ed Kyle

Ed Kyle wrote:

Story on proposed NASA budget at:
"http://www.spacetoday.net/"
includes this bit:

"NASA will also begin studying this year whether the
agency should close one of its field centers."

Does anyone know which Center is on the block?

- Ed Kyle

http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-la...dlines-topnews

NASA Langley to cut 1,000 jobs

BY DAVE SCHLECK
247-7430

February 7, 2005, 5:03 PM EST

HAMPTON -- NASA Langley Research Center Director Roy Bridges Jr.
announced today that he will have to reduce the workforce by 1,000
employees by the end of fiscal year 2006.

That would take the center from 3,900 civil service and contract
employees to 2,900.

"I know it's difficult to take this news," Bridges said.

He added that the workforce reduction is necessary in order for Langley
to remain competitive under the agency's new exploration vision, and
that he would continue to fight for more work for the center.
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Science, specially research is expensive and doesn't bring so
much profit as PowerPoint presentations. Let's cut research and
increase the power point side of things:

"The new space vision"

This means:
Cut research today, search and destroy all projects with
some scientific value and replace it with vapor-ware, in the
"Star wars initiative" style that Reagan pioneered with so much
success in the eighties. Billions went up in that smoke screen,
that never produced anything. Of course, the billions weren't lost
for everbybody...