Spread across NASA's headquarters and ten field centers, which dot the United States from sea to sea, the space agency has had a workforce of nearly 18,000 civil servants.
However, by the end of today, that number will have shrunk by about 10 percent since the beginning of the second Trump administration four weeks ago. And the world's preeminent space agency may still face significant additional cuts.
According to sources, about 750 employees at NASA accepted the "fork in the road" offer to take deferred resignation from the space agency later this year. This sounds like a lot of people, but generally about 1,000 people leave the agency every year, so effectively, many of these people might just be getting paid to leave jobs they were already planning to exit from.
Original Article Published at Arstechnica
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