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NASA may lose close to 4,000 employees

Nearly 4,000 NASA Employees Quit as Part of Trump Buyouts

In a statement emailed to SpaceNews on Friday, NASA said about 3,000 employees applied for buyouts through a second round of the program. Earlier this year, the first round saw 87

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NASA losing nearly 4,000 employees to Trump administration's 'deferred resignation' program

NASA has lost about 500 people via normal attrition as well since Trump took office in January. Counting those losses, NASA's workforce will shrink to about 14,000 by Jan. 9, 2026, when the employees who said yes during the DRP's second phase will come off the rolls, Warner said in the statement.

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NASA may lose close to 4,000 employees after latest deferred resignation round

About 3,000 NASA employees applied to leave as part of the deferred resignation program, which closed its second round on July 25.

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Satellite developed by NASA, India to map Earth down to centimeter

NASA and India plan to deploy a satellite that will map the Earth down to a centimeter after a launch on Wednesday from the ...

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A quiet but massive exit is happening at NASA right now

Since Trump took office in January 2025, about 500 employees have also left NASA through regular attrition. Factoring in ...

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Russia's Roscosmos, NASA to hold first in-person talks at heads level since 2018, Russia says

The head of Russian space agency Roscosmos, Dmitry Bakanov, has arrived in Houston for talks with the interim head of NASA, ...

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More than 20% of NASA's workforce requests to leave agency

About 3,870 employees have applied to depart NASA over two rounds through the Trump administration's deferred resignation ...

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 ...

Nearly 3,000 people are leaving NASA, and this director is one of them

On Monday, NASA announced that Makenzie Lystrup will leave her post as director of the Goddard Space Flight Center on Friday, ...

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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 ...

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How NASA Engineered Its Own Decline

NASA was a mere passenger. Musk has crowded low Earth orbit with satellites (nearly 8,000) that are becoming indispensable to ...