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Nearly 4,000 NASA employees opt for voluntary buyouts
Nearly 4,000 NASA employees, accounting for about one fifth of the agency’s workforce, have chosen to leave the agency ...
Investing in Space: NASA's months of reckoning
A group of 360 current and former employees penned a letter rebuking "rapid and wasteful changes" across staffing, mission ...
The NASA exodus
At least 1 in 5 NASA staff — mostly top scientists, engineers and senior managers — plan to announce their departure by a ...
When will NASA get a permanent leader and why is it taking so long?
AS NASA moves towards looming budget cuts, the agency still lacks a permanent leader. Here's why the search for administrator ...
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NASA or the Space Force: Who should protect Earth from dangerous asteroids?
NASA currently leads the nation's planetary defense efforts, but some are calling for the Space Force to take control.
In scathing letter, NASA workers rebuke ‘rapid and wasteful changes’ at agency
Current and former NASA employees have co-signed a declaration protesting changes at the agency that some say pose a grave ...
SpaceX launches a pair of NASA satellites to probe the origins of space weather
Two NASA satellites rocketed into orbit from California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, commencing a $170 million ...
NASA probes will study how solar wind triggers potentially dangerous "space weather"
Along with launching two NASA probes, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried five other satellites into orbit with goals ranging ...
NASA spacecraft snaps a rare photo of Mars and its moons together
Visible on the planet itself is a dark patch near the top, marking the frigid northern polar cap, where temperatures dip to ...