By the end of today, NASA’s workforce will be about 10 percent smaller

Nice. This is gonna save a lot of tax money and reduce redundancy

Don’t worry – I’m sure SpaceX has the competencies to step in. Sure they’ll be cheaper and more efficient negotiating with…..errrr…..themselves… on terms.

From the article: Spread across NASA’s headquarters and 10 field centers, which dot the United States from sea to sea, the space agency has had a workforce of nearly [18,000 civil servants](https://www.nasa.gov/organization/#:~:text=The%20agency's%20organization%20comprises%20a,for%20the%20benefit%20of%20humanity.).

However, by the end of today, that number will have shrunk by about 10 percent since the beginning of the second Trump administration four weeks ago. And the world’s preeminent space agency may still face significant additional cuts.

According to sources, about 750 employees at NASA accepted the “fork in the road” offer to take deferred resignation from the space agency later this year. This sounds like a lot of people, but generally about 1,000 people leave the agency every year, so effectively, many of these people might just be getting paid to leave jobs they were already planning to exit from.

The culling of “probationary” employees will be more impactful. As it has done at other federal agencies, the Trump administration is generally firing federal employees who are in the “probationary” period of their employment, which includes new hires within the last one or two years or long-time employees who have moved into or been promoted into a new position. About 1,000 or slightly more employees at NASA were impacted by these cuts.

Adding up the deferred resignations and probationary cuts, the Trump White House has now trimmed about 10 percent of the agency’s workforce.

All the kids watching this go down… good luck recruiting in the future for these agencies, if they still exist. 

Who would spend years in school and all the money for a career just to have some idiot erase you on a whim.

Doing the same with atc and the nuke teams… How long before all of ATC walk out and bring air travel to a stop across much of the globe?

Some governments who are investing in space exploration are about to get a wealth of talent looking for employment..  

**TL;DR:**

• About 1,000 people are expected to leave their jobs in the next few months. The White House is considering further cuts to the agency’s budget.

• The cuts are likely to come from employees who have already left their jobs or are moving into a new position. The agency is expected to make further cuts in the coming months, but it’s not clear how many will be made or when they will take place.

• It’s the second year in a row that the White House has cut the budget for the agency, which has a budget of about $2.2 billion. The previous year, the budget was cut by $1.9 billion, or about 6.5 percent, due to a lack of funding for the space agency’s operations.

• The new budget includes a $500 million cut to the NASA budget, which is supposed to cover the cost of the space shuttle program. The budget also includes a cut of $100 million to the U.S.

• Department of Energy’s budget, to be paid for by the State Department.

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I’m certain they will be much more efficient because of that. 🥲

I thought presidents were supposed to encourage and promote a strong workforce?

Hope they all land on their feet. I encourage these folks to disclose any info that they may have that is not yet public information!

What a sad disgrace this country has become. Every day I wake up to something new that is awful. My heart goes out to those hurt by this terrible administration.

As much as cost cutting and overhauling space agencies suck, it is needed.

The US is wildly overspending and that will affect everyone in the long run.

US debt is nearing 37 trillion.

Goofballs on here cheering for people losing their jobs.