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NASA to Move Hundreds of Jobs to Kennedy Space Center from Southern California.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2002

The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 6--TALLAHASSEE, Fla.--NASA is moving hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars worth of space-shuttle work from Southern California to Kennedy Space Center in an effort to cut costs.

The move, announced Tuesday in Tallahassee by NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe, will add about 235 high-wage jobs to a Central Florida economy still reeling from recession and the effects of September's terrorist attacks.

Florida's gain is a loss for a Boeing manufacturing plant in Palmdale, Calif., northeast of Los Angeles.

Managers at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration expect to save $30 million each time a shuttle is overhauled by moving the work to KSC. Savings would...

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