Re: Baikonur Staff Cuts

In message <1128796011.636038.259800@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
"Ed Kyle" <edkyle99@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> "http://www2.interfax.ru/eng/news/politics/051008/125168/story.html";
>
> "Staff at Baikonur to be cut to 2,800"
>
> This Interfax story says that only 2,800 "military and
> civilian specialists" will work at Baikonur after 2007.
> It is not entirely clear if this is just Russian Space
> Forces staff or not.
>
> Still it makes you wonder. How many people work at
> Kennedy Space Center/Cape Canaveral again?

<BBC-Joke type="traditional"> About half of them </BBC-Joke>

Anthony

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