by NASA will shortly be confronted with a large Brain outflow, as more than 2,000 high -ranking employees are preparing to leave the agency because they reduce its workforce.
Around 875 NASA workers work at the highest level of government level and in management positions or specialized positions, Politico reported on Wednesday, citing related documents that the website had received. In addition, more than 1,800 mission areas such as science and human space flight serve, and the employees make up the majority of 2,694 civilian staff who have agreed to leave NASA, said politico.
NASA will not publish the number of people who will take the resigned withdrawal program before the provider Window is closed on July 25th.
The agency told The independent That it is still committed to his mission and works “within a more prioritized budget”.
The Brain Drain comes when the budget of the White House focuses on the financing of the agency’s financial year 2026 to about half of its previous assignment of $ 7.33 billion. The cuts come when President Donald Trump prompted a move to reduce the federal budget and reduce the government’s workforce.
“There is no defined target number for the [resignation program]. This program is a voluntary opportunity that NASA employee is available, ”said spokesman Bethany Stevens.
“We work closely with the administration to ensure that America is still a leader in space research and that progress is progressing among the main goals such as the moon and Mars,” she added.
The results of the report take place after the NASA managers had informed the employees that they were already expecting an impact and the household house in 2026. A violent violation at NASA listed by the government’s efficiency was initially delayed in February before the first layoffs in March and the office of chief scientists and the office for technology, guidelines and strategy closed.
“The next generation of NASA scientists, engineers and wider team members is indiscriminately the wrong step to secure the management of America in space – just like competition with China Fieberplatz,” said George Whitesides, former chief of staff at NASA, in a post on X Reacting to Layoffs in February. “These employees such as the layoffs of nuclear workers from the National Nuclear Security Administration, bird flu workers at USDA, Waldbrand -GIS workers at the Forest Service and Weather forecasts in the NOAA will only make America weaker.”
When NASA’s budget runs through the congress, the agency expects you to like important initiatives in the decisive initiatives that have been the product of decades of their research.
This includes 41 space missions, the satellites of climate monitoring and the agency’s top climate laboratory, the current Mars sample -Return missions and the upcoming missions to Venus.
In response to the budget, which would eliminate 47 percent of its scientific budget, all of the former NASA science chiefs wrote a letter in which the cuts were convicted. He asked Congress to preserve the US leadership in space research and reject the cuts.
“The continuation of this support of space science is critical for the use of existing activities and at the same time future investments in the next generation of US scientists and engineers who lead the world in space science,” wrote. “In doing so, it would be to give up the US leadership in space and science to China and other nations, to severely damage peerless and immensely capable engineering and scientific workforce and to waste unnecessary for the waste of billions of dollars of taxpayers.”
