NASA loses another senior official as tension grows about the agency's future

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Source: msn/NBC News

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The director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center announced her resignation Monday, marking yet another high-profile departure as questions loom about the agency's budget and future.

Makenzie Lystrup, who has served as director of the center in Maryland since April 2023, will leave the agency on Aug. 1, according to a NASA statement. Goddard oversees a number of key NASA missions, including the Hubble Space Telescope, the Solar Dynamics Observatory and the OSIRIS-REx mission that collected samples from an asteroid.

Lystrup's resignation comes less than two months after Laurie Leshin stepped down as director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

The departures are playing out as NASA and other government agencies contend with significant cuts to funding and personnel, as part of a broader push to shrink the size of the federal workforce. Questions are swirling internally at NASA and on Capitol Hill about how the space agency can accomplish its work with far fewer personnel and why such cuts are moving ahead before Congress has authorized the agency's budget.

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1. It can't be a good feeling...

...that a know-nothing, reality TV star is the Director of NASA as a second job in his spare time.

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2. It could be argued that for decades

NASA was the crown jewel of the US government. Probably the most admired of all government agencies. And funding was typically seen as bipartisan.

Everything Trump touches…

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3. Are all these firings/laying offs done in order to provide Musk

with more experienced personnel for his aerospace business?

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4. But would they want to work for the guy who fired them?

There is one other billionaire out there in the space industry who hasn't pranced around, bent the knee, and kissed the ring like Muskrat and Bozos and that is Sir Richard Branson and his Virgin Galactic, which is chugging along, albeit slowly, in the background.

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