(Wasn't Gary at AMES?)

Posted on Wed, Sep. 28, 2005

NASA/Ames ending contracts with 400 scientists

By Jessica Portner

Mercury News

About 100 contractors at the NASA/Ames Research Center will be packing up their labs and laptops in the next two weeks, after getting pink slips as part of a historic restructuring at the Moffett Field center.

Leaders at the Mountain View research facility plan to shed an additional 300 contractors -- who lack the job protections of federal workers -- within a year, according to center documents. Even some projects many union workers thought were safe, such as studies about life in space and human error in orbit, are being cut deeply.

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