Launch Equipment Test Facility keeps critical staff during contractor conversion
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Updated · NASA Watch · May 8
Launch Equipment Test Facility keeps critical staff during contractor conversion
7 articles · Updated · NASA Watch · May 8
An employee at NASA's Kennedy Space Center said no LETF engineers or technicians working at transition were let go after launch, emergency-testing and R&D problems emerged.
The account said LETF had faced possible mothballing and use as storage, and uncertainty had already driven some skilled workers to leave before urgent work highlighted the facility's value.
Earlier reports had said the conversion process favoured younger degree-holders and risked losing experienced "space muscle memory", underscoring continuing communication problems despite the administrator's transparency push.
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