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260 Civil Servide employes at the Manned
Spacecraft Center near Houston have been notified they'll either be fired, reassigned or forced to quit in a management move to save dwindling funds. Engineering and development workers got the biggest blow. No astronauts were affected, although Space Agency officials admit candidly that only about a third of the 48 astronauts will fly into space.
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.).[News Script: Civil service employment changes],
script,
August 20, 1970, 6:00 p.m.;
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1329622/m1/1/:
accessed July 17, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.;
crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.