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“We don’t need rocket scientists to build commercial aircraft but we need smart people,” said Stephen Davis, a Boeing spokesman.
But those jobs only number in the dozens, possibly hundreds at best. And even if space workers get hired out of state, they would have to sell their homes in the worst housing collapse in decades. The median value of a home in Cape Canaveral, the nearest city to the space center, went from under $250,000 in 2007 to around $110,000 in May, according to the real estate website Zillow.
Aerospace technician Giovanni Pinzon said moving would be hard for workers like him who are established in the area with a family and home.
“I’d consider leaving the state but that would be a last option. I haven’t ruled it out completely,” said Pinzon, 47, who also will be pink-slipped two days after the final shuttle lands.
Raymond Steele has been struggling since he lost his job as a logistics engineer for the scrapped moon program and his marriage collapsed. But the 57-year-old is more worried about the future of the Space Coast that he still calls home.
“There is just a huge ripple effect,” said Steele. “It’s not just one aerospace engineer like me who gets laid off. There are wives, children, schools, restaurants. It comes down to not just jobs but communities.”
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