{"id":67528,"date":"2025-08-08T12:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/67528\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T12:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:01:06","slug":"union-pushback-on-wallops-visitor-center-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/67528\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Pushback On Wallops Visitor Center Closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/wallops-visitor-center.jpeg\" alt=\"Union Pushback On Wallops Visitor Center Closure\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                                                            NASA Wallops Visitor Center \u2014 NASA                                                                                                    <\/p>\n<p>Keith\u2019s note: According to a press release from AFGE, AFL-CIO Union: \u201cThe Union representing Federal employees at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility is calling on Congressional leaders, local government officials, economic stakeholders, and the public to take immediate action to stop the proposed closure of the NASA Wallops Visitor Center (WVC) \u2013 a decision that, if enacted, would inflict irreparable harm on the community, the regional economy, and NASA\u2019s public mission. \u201cThis closure is not just a bureaucratic reshuffling. It\u2019s a devastating blow, delivered with precision, to a community that has loyally supported NASA for generations,\u201d said one Union member. \u201cThe Visitor Center is not a luxury; it\u2019s a vital link between space exploration and the American public, particularly in rural regions like ours where opportunity and visibility are already scarce.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/nasawatch.com\/budget\/union-pushback-on-wallops-visitor-center-closure\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Full release below<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA Wallops Visitor Center \u2014 NASA Keith\u2019s note: According to a press release from AFGE, AFL-CIO Union: \u201cThe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[49259,79,193,14679,49260,31600],"class_list":["post-67528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-https-nasawatch-com-budget-union-pushback-on-wallops-visitor-center-closure-budget","tag-science","tag-space","tag-trumpspace","tag-visitors-center","tag-wallops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67528","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=67528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}