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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/09/nasa-staff-departures-00444674 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/09/nasa-staff-departur... “You’re losing the mana
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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/09/nasa-staff-departures-00444674 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/09/nasa-staff-departur...
“You’re losing the managerial and core technical expertise of the agency,” said Casey Dreier, chief of space policy at The Planetary Society.
- mosesbp 1y agoThanks for this earlier article. From there it seems that the most staff losses are at Goddard, which is largely focused on science, not launch capabilities. So this unfortunately seems to fit into the larger “anti-science” push of the administration (e.g. the almost entirely senseless cuts at the NSF, NIH) more than it has to do with launch activities. Another dark day for US physics research…