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And it was the official end of the space shuttle program after 30 closely-chronicled years of triumphs and tragedies. Thousands of highly-skilled space center workers are being let go. Another wave departs early next month.
The huge Vehicle Assembly Building where 200-plus foot rockets were built and then driven to the pad for so many years is totally void now, awaiting a new mission or demolition to save $12 million in annual maintenance costs.
The immense structure now contains a memory wall of space workers' signatures, like handwritten gravestones to productive careers no longer needed. As the work force melts away, including the corps of astronauts, NASA officials say all the correct , hopeful, optimistic things about new adventures and missions under President Obama's command.
But other than an unexciting reach for the asteroids, few seem able to define what that Real Good Talker has in mind, other than not doing in space what President Bush planned. And for some years into the future, astronauts of the once-pioneering nation that landed on the moon will be renting Russian Soyuz seats to get into space.
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