Final mission bodes ill for Florida's Space Coast economy

Anticipation is high at Kennedy Space Centre ahead of the landing of Atlantis, an event which will bring to an end NASA's historic space shuttle programme.

An estimated 7,000 shuttle workers are losing their jobs -- and that is excluding the ripple effect the closure will have on the local economy of the Central Florida's community - known as the Space Coast.

Al Jazeera's Scott Heidler, reporting from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, says the shuttle's retirement will have an economic toll.

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[pinboyjorf]

@JogBird eating well.

[ziccy7]

@realrockvince goodbye

[ziccy7]

@Uhmu45 goodbye

[Uhmu45]

@realrockvince

Thats a great non-answer :P

[realrockvince]

@Uhmu45 Please read the comment I made a moment ago replying to ziccy7. That is the same reply I have for your last comment. Thanks.

[realrockvince]

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[ziccy7]

@realrockvince only 46% is non military, Department of defence 18.74% ,department of veterans affairs 16.13%, department of homeland security 19.63%, this 54.5% is the pentagon budget. 8.19% to national aeronautics and space administartion. How do you think people will sustain without space development when we live on a finite planet? just wondering or are you the type that just says ill be dead by then not even thinking about you children

[Uhmu45]

@realrockvince

Will you provide evidence that im wrong? NASA's budget for 2011 is 18 billion, ~0,60% of the federal budget. US lends a trillion dollar a year, thats ~50 NASA's. The technologies that have been developed with the space program have been very successful commercially and the constant investment in the 60's and 70's is what kept the microprocessor alive and developing.

[realrockvince]

@ziccy7 Incorrect. 20% goes to the military, 43% goes to socialized medicine and socialized retirement funds

Source: cbo.gov/ftpdocs/120xx/doc12039­/HistoricalTables%5B1%5D.pdf

[realrockvince]

@Uhmu45 You made three statements in your reply - all are untrue.