NASA staff declare opposition to Trump cuts
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NASA faces a proposed $6 billion agency-wide funding cut by the Trump administration, including a 47% reduction of science missions and activities.
President Donald Trump on Monday named Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to also serve as interim NASA administrator. Janet Petro, a former leader of the Kennedy Space Center, has been the agency's acting administrator since Trump became president on Jan.
It remains an open question as to whether NASA and the U.S. space program will survive the Republican president’s second term.
NASA's leadership change comes at a pivotal moment for the agency, which is already bracing for potentially severe funding cuts.
A letter released Monday from more than 150 NASA employees urged agency officials not to make deep budgetary cuts proposed by the White House, saying they would have “dire” consequences. “We are
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is about to perform double duty after President Donald Trump named him interim head of NASA.
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The space agency is facing potentially disastrous budget cuts and staff reductions.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is about to perform double duty after President Donald Trump named him interim head of NASA.
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NASA Goddard Center Director quits as agency staffers issue dissent letterVoyager Declaration rails against 'indiscriminate cuts' to science and aeronautics research NASA's Goddard Center Director, Makenzie Lystrup, is to depart after just over two years in the role.… The announcement was made on the same day past and present NASA staffers "exercised their expression of Formal Dissent" regarding the agency's direction via the Voyager Declaration.
appointed Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy as the interim administrator of NASA ... This potentially massive personnel loss dovetails with the new White House budget, which would cut NASA’s science budget nearly in half. Politico’s report added ...
President Donald Trump tapped Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to serve as the interim administrator of NASA on Wednesday, July 9. The role has been vacant since Trump withdrew his initial nominee, billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman, at the end of May.