PILMAN
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I don't have any more information but I see this on CNN right now.
When I worked for a NASA contractor in Cleveland in the '80s and '90s, the guards were civilian contractors. One of them shot himself in the leg on the Fairview Park, OH police range when he attempted to holster his Glock 17 with his finger on the trigger...I thought NASA had their own "security force" as they are a DOD entity.
When I worked for a NASA contractor in Cleveland in the '80s and '90s, the guards were civilian contractors. One of them shot himself in the leg on the Fairview Park, OH police range when he attempted to holster his Glock 17 with his finger on the trigger...
Gunman opened fire at NASA building, police say
NASA evacuated a building at the Johnson Space Center in Houston after a person with a gun was seen and a shot was fired, a NASA spokeswoman said Friday. Brandi Dean said it was not yet known if anyone was hurt. NASA spokesperson James Hartfield told CNN there were gunshots heard in the building. He added NASA security rules do not allow weapons on the property.
HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) -- NASA evacuated a building at the Johnson Space Center in Houston after an employee with a gun was seen and a shot was fired, a NASA spokesman said Friday.
A SWAT team with the Houston Police has been dispatched to building 44 on the Johnson Space Center property, a source told CNN. Building 44 holds a laboratory.
The call for help came in to the Houston Police at 1:40 p.m. (2:40 p.m. ET) but it's unclear who made that call.
NASA spokesman James Hartfield said all of the employees that would have been in that building have been evacuated.
There is "extremely tight security" at Johnson Space Center, Hartfield said.
A NASA spokesperson told CNN that all employees have been told to go home for the day.
Space Center Intermediate School, less than a mile south, has been locked down, said Karen Permetti, spokeswoman for Clear Creek Independent School District.
She said the school lets out at 4 p.m. (5 p.m. ET) and parents have been asked not to come to the school to pick up their children.
The school has about 1,100 students, she said.
If you shot a round off in space, I guess it would just keep going until it left the galaxy or something got in the way...
I worked with the astronauts daily in the Crew Escape Program