NASA started massive tirings before the Trump Team period
The main office consultants of the NASA main scientist go between broad-level effort

Mary W. Jackson is a great “NASA” logo in front of the NASA headquarters.
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The NASA violently closed the scientist’s office, along with 2 other offices, shooting 23 employees. Action of 10 March leaves the agency without independent science advice without a way to feed its higher leadership, at one time Talk to the moon to send astronauts and develop plans to move on to Mars.
Janet Petrok, NASA administrator play, said that we are watching our work as an opportunity to reschedule our work. ” Lay-offs come days than all US federal agencies A plan should be submitted by how the employees would deleteDonald Trump and Donald Trump as part of a radical decline in the federal government runs His advisor Elon Musken Musk is on behalf of improving efficiency.
These are the first shots of the NASA since Trump took, and other weeks have taken another model of other federal agencies in recent weeks. Nasa saved, for unknown reasons, spread Employee test plains – Low labor protection because they have been in positions less than two years – viewed in other agencies. Movements NASA The first agency below the current Trump administration, starting with pre-observed firefighters, starting with many observers (rifs) (rifs). There is no other light agency that I can follow the lead of NASA.
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NASA’s closed offices are the head of the main scientist; Technology, Policy and Strategy Office; and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility branch of its office of diversity and equal opportunities. Cutting the last from these is the correct consequence Trump Application Executive January 20 to Slash diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives throughout the federal government. But the reason for closing the other two offices is not obvious.
Thinking in the future
Both offices recommend the leader or administrators of NASA, scientific and technical issues. The petro is compiling this position in Trump candidate, Billion and private astronaut Jared Isaacman – Musk’s friend – confirms the Senate of the US.
Both offices are special because they offer ways to connect between NASA departments and divisions. “You will lose strategic thinking,” said a NASA employee knows the structure of the offices, but he did not want to name the fear of reversal.
For example, the main scientist’s office was involved NASA Science Open Science Initiative Public sharing data and algorithmsAnd they took discussions about reproducibility and scientific ethics, among other things. “People thought about the future of Nasa,” the staff said. The Office also produces the internal reports requested by the NASA administrator, including the final examination of the impact of industrial partners who may have Bringing plans Rock samples from Mars.
The head of the main scientist is independent of the NASA Science Mission Directorate. The agency supervises the $ 7 billion budget and runs missions Hubble Space telescope and Mars Rovers. The position of the main NASA scientist who oversets the office is celebrated with chain Calvin scientists. It was removed with the office, expected to return to Calvin to the US Energy Department, of which he was borrowed along with NASA.
The office of technology, politics and strategy examined extensive spaces of NASA, such as the relationship between Orbital waste, agency and aerospace partners in artificial intelligence.
Firms came Monday morning without warning, a person who lost his job said Nature. They were especially impressed by career workers before the end of the Rif Plan period. “He is doing a strange way to the agency, he must leave anyone to go,” they said. “Before today, NASA has had a huge place to work – to dream great, renewal, I did things I never thought.”
This article reproduces with permission and has been First posted March 11, 2025.