More than 3,800 NASA employees are departing the agency via voluntary separation programs, as part of a larger federal ...

The departures are playing out as NASA and other government agencies contend with significant cuts to funding and personnel.

The budget proposes a $6 billion cut to the agency, 24% less than NASA’s current $24.8 billion budget for 2025.

Current and former NASA employees have co-signed a declaration protesting changes at the agency that some say pose a grave ...

NASA faces a proposed $6 billion agency-wide funding cut by the Trump administration, including a 47% reduction of science missions and activities.

NASA’s 2026 budget proposal includes a 47 percent cut to its science division. A planned June 12 public meeting has been postponed pending internal briefings.

The president’s proposed budget for 2026 cuts the agency by nearly 25 percent. That would be the largest single-year cut in NASA’s history, taking it back to a level last seen in 1961.

The cuts, Dreier says, reduce NASA’s budget to less than it has been, accounting for inflation, since the earliest days of Project Mercury in the early 1960s.

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