The American Space Agency (NASA) is a great austerity DeclareWhich also included the closure of many departments, including the leading world office, the technology office, politician and strategy, and the diversity, equality and inclusion office.
The decision is in line with the new guidelines of US President Donald Trump, which are linked to the efficiency of government agencies and the elimination of previously presented equality programs.
Janet Petro, the interim director of NASA, welcomed the decision as a good soldier, but critics say this step will undermine the agency's commitment to science and social issues. Intuition You knowSo far, the position of 20 people has been canceled, and in any case, Petro has warned that it is expected soon to repetition and organizational transformation.
The abolition of the Scientific Administration Office indicates a change in NASA's position on climate policy, as the great world has previously advised scientific strategies and often for climate change- Catherine Calvin, appointed in 2022, a major role in NASA's climate and climate initiatives.
The diversity office is also contradictory to the past years in NASA: The spacecraft has been recently diversified to diversify a spacecraft or the first colored in the Artemis program.
We will not know NASA within a year
Axios also quotes Grant Tremblaay, researcher at Harvard Center and Smthonsian AstroxySical Center and external relations, which is on X to make (Post and Tremblay X profile has not been available since then: “NASA is a small but perhaps the most famous and most popular in American history. Now they started in the intestine, and the upcoming restrictions are so huge that we will not know it within a year.”
Ars Technica a few days ago WrittenThe Trump government is considering extreme austerity in the NASA Directorate of the Scientific Mission, where they can send half of the workers. Russell Fion, head of the Budget Management Office and the Budget Office at the White House, predicted the expectation of NASA's climate and Earth's research programs, which experts say will be a serious kick for planetary research or astronomical physics and may lead to stopping human missions such as Hubble space. Mars mission.
Although NASA's scientific programs represent only 30 percent of the agency's budget of $ 25 billion, they are responsible for the most important discoveries, from Mars to exploring external planets. Experts who are speaking against the planned repetition say that all of this will chant American space research so that China can take the initiative in this field with laughter.
