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With thousands of Space Coast workers facing unemployment as the space shuttle program winds down, Orlando’s military-training industry says it has jobs for many them.
With thousands of Space Coast workers facing unemployment as the U.S. space-shuttle program winds down, Orlando’s high-tech military-training industry says it has jobs for many of those who will be displaced.
But work-force officials in Brevard County aren’t convinced the region’s training-simulation companies will have nearly enough openings for those expected to lose their jobs when shuttle launches end at Kennedy Space Center.
Even if such jobs materialize, there is not enough money, so far at least, to retrain space workers to fill them, Brevard officials say. Few shuttle contractors have offered to retrain their employees, fearing it could undermine the shuttle program while there is still hope it might be extended or saved. And NASA hasn’t put any money toward retraining, though the space agency says it supports the use of such services where available
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March 17, 2010|By Richard Burnett, Orlando Sentinel
