NASA Prepares for Change
With only three years remaining before the space-shuttle fleet’s planned retirement, NASA managers have begun tackling the thorny issues that will dictate the program’s end.
Critical facilities must be overhauled to support planned human missions to the moon. Billions of dollars’ worth of obsolete shuttle hardware must be disposed of. And, most difficult of all, thousands of jobs must be shifted or eliminated as the shuttle era ends and the new Constellation project takes off. Read more
