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Sunday Edition: Obama budget nixes key Michoud rocket launch production

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by WWLTV.com

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Posted on February 21, 2010 at 12:32 PM

The Michoud Assembly Facility, which builds the external fuel tank for the space shuttle, has been losing jobs as the shuttle program is phased out.

But the next generation of the space program, Constellation, was supposed to bring hundreds of jobs for a rocket launch system. Trouble is, President Barack Obama's budget proposal calls for killing the Constellation rocket launch project. 

Can the constellation rocket program and the jobs that go with it be saved? If not, what happens to Michoud?

Michael Hecht, pesident & CEO of GNO, Inc., answer those questions and more.

 

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ashleighbright said on February 21, 2010 at 11:10 PM

How many of those soon unemployed Michoud workers, their family AND FRIENDS who voted for Obama will vote for him ( and his supportive Democrats ) come next Election Day???

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