{"id":264875,"date":"2025-11-01T12:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T12:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/264875\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T12:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T12:02:08","slug":"nasa-cuts-dozens-of-marshall-space-flight-center-based-iss-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/264875\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA cuts dozens of Marshall Space Flight Center-based ISS jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. (WHNT) \u2014 Congressman Robert Aderholt\u2019s office confirmed NASA has cut dozens of International Space Station jobs based at Marshall Space Flight Center.<\/p>\n<p>Aderholt\u2019s office said several dozen contract employees connected with ISS were let go Friday. They said this is part of the transition as NASA prepares to deorbit the ISS in 2030.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Operations at MSFC with the ISS include communicating with astronauts to conduct experiments through the ISS Payload Operations Integration Center.<\/p>\n<p>These are not the first cuts to come to MSFC this year. <a href=\"https:\/\/whnt.com\/news\/huntsville\/trumps-2026-proposed-budget-includes-cuts-to-space-programs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">President Trump\u2019s proposed 2026 budget<\/a>\u00a0included cuts to NASA\u2019s staff and budget.<\/p>\n<p>A few months ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/whnt.com\/news\/huntsville\/marshall-space-flight-center-to-lose-hundreds-of-employees\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">POLITICO reported that at least 2,145 senior-ranking NASA employees, including 279 employees at the Marshall Space Flight Center<\/a>, were set to leave their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Trump also directed federal agencies to lay off their probationary employees.<br \/>At that time, a NASA spokesperson said it was complying with the U.S. Office of Personal Management (OPM).<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClose Modal<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. (WHNT) \u2014 Congressman Robert Aderholt\u2019s office confirmed NASA has cut dozens of International Space Station&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-264875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264875","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=264875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}