Scott Pelley followed up his"60 Minutes" interview with SpaceX founder Elon Musk by looking at Florida's Space Coast in the wake of the retirement of the space shuttle. It wasn't a pretty picture. Businesses are failing, families are moving away, lives are being disrupted. That's the economic impact on Brevard county of ending the money flow of the shuttle program without replacing it with another program.
There's also an emotional component. Workers who built their careers, thirty years, in the shuttle program are now, too often, high and dry. Many of those people took immense, intense pride in doing a job for their country that no other group in the world could do. Many of those are struggling with that pride, trying to understand why their country abandoned the shuttle program, and with it a leadership role in space.
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