More than 20% of staff file resignations amid downsizing and unclear direction, local media reports - Anadolu Ajansı

AS NASA moves towards looming budget cuts, the agency still lacks a permanent leader. Here's why the search for administrator is taking so long.

NASA is slashing nearly more than 20 percent of its workforce as part of President Trump’s efforts to downsize the federal government since returning to the White House. Nearly 4,000 workers have

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.

Nearly 4,000 NASA employees have opted to leave the space agency through the Trump administration's deferred resignation program, NASA said on Saturday.

On Monday, NASA announced that Makenzie Lystrup will leave her post as director of the Goddard Space Flight Center on Friday, August 1. Lystrup has held the top job at Goddard since April 2023, overseeing a staff of more than 8,000 civil servants and contractor employees and a budget last year of about $4.7 billion.

A group of 360 current and former employees penned a letter rebuking “rapid and wasteful changes” across staffing, mission and budgetary cuts at NASA.

Draconian budget and staff cuts could mean another Challenger disaster, warn current and former NASA employees.

At least 1 in 5 NASA staff — mostly top scientists, engineers and senior managers — plan to announce their departure by a Friday deadline, according to documents I obtained this week.