Space Gateway Support

It appears more than 10 percent of the 2,800 workers currently employed by Space Gateway Support at Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station will lose their jobs as contracts shift to new employers. SGS handed out formal layoff notices recently in advance of the Oct. 1 switchover as 15 companies take over contracts to provide support services to KSC and the Cape. An estimated 300 or more employees will not be picked up in the new hiring, but the final total of lost jobs won't be known until Oct. 1, when the new contractors take over, a SGS spokesman said.