The Trump administration is reportedly planning to cut at least 2,145 high-ranking Nasa employees with specialized skills or management responsibilities.
According to documents obtained by Politico, most employees leaving are in senior-level government ranks, depriving the agency of decades of experience as part of a push to slash the size of the federal government through early retirement, buyouts and deferred resignations.
The documents indicate that 1,818 of the staff currently serve in core mission areas, like science or human space flight, while the others work in mission support roles including information technology, or IT.
Don’t worry everyone. I don’t like musk any more than you do but you can’t deny that space x is amazing and perfect and sexy and not Jewish and will solve all problems because nobody else in human history ever thought of a reusable vessel!
And this is definitely a “good” reminder to reach out to a buddy at NASA