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has been challenging for the engineers to find jobs that pay as
well as NASA  Engineers that once earned six-figure incomes with
NASA's space shuttle program are now looking for work or taking
jobs that are far below their skill level due to the retirement
of the Discovery, Endeavor, and Atlantis shuttles.   Last year,
NASA retired each of the three remaining spacecraft in the U.S.
space shuttle program, which lasted nearly 30 years. In February
2011, Space Shuttle Discovery was the first of the three to
launch on its final mission with Space Shuttle Endeavour
following in May 2011. Space Shuttle Atlantis was the last to go
in July 2011.  Since the space shuttle fleet's retirement, about
7,400 engineers from the Kennedy Space Center in Brevard County,
Florida (also known as the Space Coast) were laid off. Today,
there are only 8,500 workers at the Kennedy Space Center total
when there used to be around 15,000.  A majority of those laid
off were i