NASA's Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts

[demmiblue]

Source: NYT

Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out.

The Trump administration is closing NASA’s largest research library on Friday, a facility that houses tens of thousands of books, documents and journals — many of them not digitized or available anywhere else.

Jacob Richmond, a NASA spokesman, said the agency would review the library holdings over the next 60 days and some material would be stored in a government warehouse while the rest would be tossed away.

“This process is an established method that is used by federal agencies to properly dispose of federally owned property,” Mr. Richmond said.

The shutdown of the library at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., is part of a larger reorganization under the Trump administration that includes the closure of 13 buildings and more than 100 science and engineering laboratories on the 1,270-acre campus by March 2026.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/climate/nasa-goddard-library-closing.html

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Thrown out?!

[SheltieLover]

1. Hopefully, this will be challanged & stopped in courts!

[underpants]

2. Bullshit. It's not thrown out it goes to surplus

I’m an not familiar with Fed Policy specifically but I’m sure they follow the same general rules that all public service follows because IT’S OURS

[Shipwack]

11. Since when has Trump cared about rules?

This would only the latest of a few dozen laws broken so far in the first year of his second term…

[AZ8theist]

15. Yeah, tell that to the East Wing.

[Bayard]

3. Pathetic

I'm sure there are plenty of other institutions that would love to have those documents.

Dog in the manger mentality.

[Buddyzbuddy]

4. I wonder how much of NASA's "stuff" will end up at the Massive Lardo bathroom?

[OldBaldy1701E]

6. A very good question!

I wish someone would ask him about it.

[orangecrush]

5. This level of damage can't be reversed.

And I mean the whole country

[BOSSHOG]

7. Of course, stupid people don't need NASA Info, but

Russia would love it. NASA is the crown jewel of the federal government.

[littlemissmartypants]

12. Bingo.

[electric_blue68]

8. Damn Ignorant EFFER!

Hopefully things will be sent elsewhere!

Another reason to despise this "man".

[Deep State Witch]

9. This is Near Me

I know people that work at Goddard. This is disheartening.

[llmart]

10. Why can't it be digitized?

It's done all the time. Newspapers do it. Universities do it with research records. I've done it myself at a univesity where I worked in the library. You can be sure there is some very valuable information in the documents and some that is useful.

The spitefulness and ignorance knows no bounds witih this administration.

[Bread and Circuses]

14. Agree. Because they want us to pay private space companies for our own knowledge

[Bread and Circuses]

13. How Convenient! Now there is NO public space research library!,

And they’re going to throw away ?!?!?!?!?! Documents????

Hard copies should be digitized.


We need the historical record!

The fascists are destroying our public shared knowledge.

You better believe space X and blue origin will have DIGITAL copies of everything.


These republicans are closing down our government

[AZ8theist]

16. Someone needs to offer Dotard a few million $$$

To take the stuff off his hands in order to preserve it.

Hopefully, that would prevent it from being "thrown out".

Just more vile, disgusting IGNORANT destruction of America. Putin is grinning ear to ear.

[mdbl]

17. But we have money to spend on gaudy ballrooms and Dump memorial arches.