{"id":1113,"date":"2025-07-11T09:06:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T09:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/1113\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T09:06:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T09:06:04","slug":"over-2000-senior-level-nasa-employees-resign-one-warns-things-just-sound-like-its-going-to-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/1113\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 2,000 senior-level NASA employees resign, one &#8216;warns&#8217;: Things just sound like it\u2019s going to get .."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Trump-administration-planning-to-cut-over-2145-NASA-employees.jpg\" alt=\"Over 2,000 senior-level NASA employees resign, one 'warns': Things just sound like it\u2019s going to get ..\" title=\"Most employees leaving are in GS-13 to GS-15 positions, senior-level government ranks\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Most employees leaving are in GS-13 to GS-15 positions, senior-level government ranks NASA is facing a significant loss of expertise, with 2,145 senior-level employees in GS-13 to GS-15 positions, including 875 GS-15 staff, set to depart, according to internal documents cited by Politico. These employees, who represent critical managerial and technical expertise, make up the majority of the 2,694 civil staff accepting early retirement, buyouts, or deferred resignations as part of broader federal workforce reduction efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Is it Exodus at NASA<\/p>\n<p>The exodus spans NASA\u2019s core mission areas, with 1,818 staff from science and human space flight roles leaving, alongside others in support functions like IT and finance. \u201cYou\u2019re losing the managerial and core technical expertise of the agency,\u201d warned Casey Dreier, chief of space policy at The Planetary Society, questioning the strategy behind the cuts.The departures align with a proposed 2026 White House budget that would cut NASA\u2019s funding by 25% and reduce staff by over 5,000, shrinking the agency to its smallest size since the early 1960s. All 10 NASA regional centers are affected, with Goddard Space Flight Center losing 607 staff, Johnson Space Center 366, Kennedy Space Center 311, NASA headquarters 307, Langley Research Center 281, Marshall Space Flight Center 279, and Glenn Research Center 191.<\/p>\n<p>Lot of experience drain<\/p>\n<p>While some job cuts, like those at Goddard, align with White House goals, the loss of staff critical to lunar missions by mid-2027 and future Mars plans raises concerns. A departing NASA staffer, speaking anonymously, described the cuts as causing \u201ca lot of experience drain,\u201d potentially disrupting operations. \u201cYou\u2019re losing the managerial and core technical expertise of the agency,\u201d said Casey Dreier, chief of space policy at The Planetary Society. \u201cWhat\u2019s the strategy and what do we hope to achieve here?\u201dA an employee who has resigned described their decision to leave as influenced in part by fear of the proposed NASA budget cuts and the lack of a Senate-approved NASA administrator: \u201cThings just sound like it\u2019s going to get worse.\u201dThe staffer cited fears of deeper budget cuts and the absence of a Senate-approved NASA administrator as factors in their decision to leave.With only half of the White House\u2019s targeted 5,000 staff reductions met, further involuntary cuts loom if participation in the deferred resignation program, ending July 25, falls short. However, Congress could reject these proposals, as the Senate Commerce Committee has signaled support for retaining NASA staff in a March bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most employees leaving are in GS-13 to GS-15 positions, senior-level government ranks NASA is facing a significant loss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1363,1362,1361,1360,79,1359,193],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-nasa-budget-impact-2026","tag-nasa-employee-resignations","tag-nasa-funding-cuts","tag-nasa-workforce-reduction","tag-science","tag-senior-level-nasa-staff-leaving","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}