NASA says 20% of workforce to depart space agency
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, JUL 25 – NASA faces mass layoffs and program cancellations due to a proposed 50% budget cut, with over 2,000 senior staff expected to resign, raising concerns about U.S. space leadership.
- About 20 percent of NASA's employees, around 3,870 people, are expected to depart the space agency as part of a voluntary resignation program.
- A group of 360 current and former NASA employees penned a letter expressing concerns about 'rapid and wasteful changes' across staffing, missions, and budgets at NASA.
- Democrats on a House committee overseeing NASA's budget have warned the agency's acting administrator that it would be 'flatly illegal' to proceed with structural and workforce changes before NASA's budget is passed by Congress.
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The Space Agency is losing many workers due to the cancellation of jobs by the U.S. government. Nasa still holds on to manned moon and Mars missions.
A good 20 percent of the employees are to leave the US space agency NASA. About 3870 people will leave and around 14,000 will remain, a NASA spokesperson told the German press agency. The aim is to become a leaner and more efficient organization and at the same time to remain able to strive for a "golden age of research and innovation, also on the moon and Mars".Security remains the top priority.Trump government pushes cuts in governmentThe US g…
Washington. NASA will lose about 3,900 employees in the framework of the federal government's jib scheme undertaken by Donald Trump, although the president remains committed to the U.S. space agency carrying manned missions to the Moon and Mars.The aerospace agency reported in a statement that nearly 3,000 employees took part in the second round of the voluntary resignation plan.In the first round, 870 workers agreed to leave the agency.The NASA…
NASA Layoffs: US Space Agency May Lose 20% of Workforce As 3,870 Employees Expected To Depart | 🔬 LatestLY
NASA is reportedly set to lose nearly 20% of its workforce, with around 3,870 employees expected to leave soon. This would bring the US space agency's total staff down to approximately 14,000. The reason behind the mass exit has not yet been disclosed. 🔬 NASA Layoffs: US Space Agency May Lose 20% of Workforce As 3,870 Employees Expected To Depart.
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