Assets and Transition Plan
The Space Shuttle Program occupies over 654 facilities, uses over 1.2 million line items of equipment and employs over 5,000 people. The total value of equipment is over $12 billion. Shuttle related facilities represent over a quarter of NASA's inventory. There are over 1,200 active suppliers to the program throughout the United States. NASA's transition plan has the program operating through 2010 with a transition and retirement phase lasting through 2015. During this time the Ares I and Orion as well as the Altair Lunar Lander were to be under development (although now these programs have been canceled).
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