CAPE CANAVERAL (Reuters) - The U.S. government awarded a $15 million emergency grant to Florida's Brevard County to retrain workers who will lose their jobs when the space shuttles are retired, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said on Wednesday.
The shuttle program is scheduled to end after two more launches from the Kennedy Space Center this year and Florida officials estimate that 8,000 NASA-related jobs will be lost. The grant is intended to help retrain about 3,200 of them who are currently under contract with major aerospace companies.
(Reporting by Irene Klotz, editing by Jane Sutton and Sandra Maler)
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