AEROSPACE & DEFENSE

Rockwell’s Palmdale Plant Wins Shuttle Work: Rockwell International officials said the plant has been chosen to refit the 7-year-old space shuttle Atlantis, allowing the spacecraft to stay aloft longer and possibly enabling it to rendezvous with a Russian space station, officials said. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration had tentatively planned to transfer all shuttle refit work to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a move that would have cost as many as 400 jobs at the Palmdale facility, according to Sen. John Seymour (R-Calif.) The value of the Atlantis work was not immediately available.