Nearly 4,000 NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

NPR ^ | July 26, 2025 | Chandelis Duster

[HollyB]

My father retired from NASA . Began his career as a civil engineer with the development of the MDSCC - the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex.

[Mlheureux]

Perhaps we’ll see the old NASA drive we had in the 60’s.

[Ex-Con777]

So much for the Muslim outreach program.

EC

[Billthedrill]

The organization needs to be repurposed. We could put them to, oh, I don’t know, space exploration or something? I hope that’s not crazy talk...

[catnipman]

NASA needs to be abolished and started over from scratch, either that, or abolish it and turn its mission over to Space X ...

[tet68]

Get the government out of it,first come first claim
You’ll see a rush like you’ve never seen before...

The only reason government wants to be first is to be able to tell the rest of mankind how to use it.
Same for the moon.

[Retain Mike]

Wonderful. They won’t be missed.

[clee1]

Good start. This agency has been overpriced and has underdelivered its entire existence.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

The cuts amount to an estimated 20% of NASA's workforce, and will reduce the agency from 18,000 to 14,000 employees,

What "work"?

Testing and replacing the vacuum tubes on their 1960s punchcard computers?

[Cold Heart]

“valves:)

[TheDon]

It appears building rockets is no longer a needed function of NASA.

[Political Junkie Too]

It's unclear when the full reduction of the workforce will take effect...

...but we'll blame President Trump for anything that happens in space anyway.

-PJ

[SuperLuminal]

Deadwood self-clearing...
Good news...
Anybody of engineering or scientific consequence wouldn’t take the buyout...

[HonkyTonkMan]

Hillarious they get a quote from children’s clown Bill Nye.

[Celtic Conservative]

SpaceX does a lot of NASA’s heavy lifting these days (literally) so a smaller agency only makes sense.

CC

[Secret Agent Man]

Yup

[Swirl]

“Anybody of engineering or scientific consequence wouldn’t take the buyout...”

Many are taking the buyout, especially in management, rather than waiting to see if they are cut when funding becomes tighter.

[Flaming Conservative]

Well, bye.

[moviefan8]

I might take it if I were close to retirement.