NASA Says Thousands of Employees Set to Resign from Space Agency
(bloomberg.com)
2 points by helsinkiandrew 39 minutes ago
https://archive.ph/20250726015306/https://www.bloomberg.com/...
by helsinkiandrew 39 minutes ago
privatisation of the US space programme.
hard to know what to think about this - on the one hand, there is going to be a huge loss of institutional knowledge, which NASA likely will not be able to replace. On the other, many of these employees will end up in private sector space tech companies, talent seeding a nascent sector.
should be no problem from a national security perspective, given that military-civilian fusion can be easily achieved in the space sector by hunglee2 36 minutes ago
There's no national security angle; NASA is a purely civilian scientific agency with no military facets. Other agencies—USAF, USSF, NRO—handle the US' militarization of space (and they have *considerably* larger budgets than NASA. Trump's creation, "Space Force!", gets $39.9 billion[0] in the new budget—twice the entirety of NASA's, and a 40% YoY increase).
[0] https://www.saffm.hq.af.mil/FM-Resources/Budget/Air-Force-Pr... ("Department of the Air Force President's Budget Request FY26") by perihelions 25 minutes ago