Multiple people familiar with the White House proposal said cuts to NASA's "Science Mission Directorate" could be as high as ...
Unlike workers at many other federal agencies this week, probationary employees at NASA were not terminated on Tuesday.
The White House is believed to have made a last-minute decision to pause mass firings at NASA after fears that up to 10 percent of its 18,000 federal staff were to be let go by the end of Tuesday.
NASA did not immediately respond to Chron's request for comment about the last-minute reprieve. Not all federal workers had the same luck, with thousands fired as the White House and its ...
Although it hasn't been confirmed, sources told Berger it's possible that billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman, tapped by Trump as the next NASA administrator, requested that the cuts be ...