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Updated: 7:41 PM Feb 11, 2012
Aerospace Workers Brace for NASA Cuts
Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge are bracing for an announcement of NASA's budget in anticipation of major cuts.
Posted: 9:59 PM Feb 10, 2012Reporter: Associated Press Email Address: news@kolotv.com |
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LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. (AP) - Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge are bracing for an announcement of NASA's budget in anticipation of major cuts.
The Pasadena Star-News reports that the space agency's 2013 budget is to be announced Monday and planetary exploration operations are expected to take a hit.
Congressman Adam Schiff of Pasadena says he had a tense meeting
with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on Thursday.
Schiff says planetary science and the Mars program are expected to face "absolutely devastating" cuts.
Schiff says if joint missions with the European Space Agency are
scrapped, JPL will likely be deeply affected.
JPL spokeswoman Veronica McGregor says the company laid off about 240 employees between 2010 and 2011 because of previous
budget cuts.
Schiff vows to fight cuts.
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