On Episode 185 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Josh Dinner to discuss NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center future, given it is in the administration's crosshairs.
With cuts to their budget and staffing beginning under Elon Musk's DOGE, it has taken a different form with the government shutdown. Employees furloughed or retired from critical programs, laboratories shuttered, and entire facilities gutted — all without the approval of Congress. By the time the shutdown is over, NASA's primary research center — and the one most responsible for what many are now calling "the C-word," climate science — will be a shell of its former self. Dinner recently completed a months-long investigative report.
Also: Jared Isaacman is back in the running as NASA chief, the 25th anniversary of the ISS, and China now working with the US on orbital dangers.
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Space news of the week
- Trump renominates billionaire Jared Isaacman for NASA chief in major reversal
- China reached out to NASA to avoid a potential satellite collision in 1st-of-its-kind space cooperation
- This Apollo-era radio telescope in the NC mountains once spied on Soviet satellites. Now it's for sale
- The International Space Station will fall to Earth in 2030. Can a private space station really fill its gap?
- NASA's new Mars mission: These twin satellites could reveal how the Red Planet lost its atmosphere
- NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown — and may be breaking the law in the process, critics say
- New Democratic Staff Report: Direct Evidence Trump Administration Has Been Illegally Imposing President’s Proposed Budget Cuts at NASA Since Early Summer—Threatening Safety, Mission, Science
- Goddard Missions
- Acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy says the agency will 'move aside' from climate sciences to focus on exploring moon and Mars
- NASA to eliminate chief scientist position
- GESTA IFPTE LOCAL 29
- 'NASA is under attack.' Space agency employees and lawmakers protest mass layoffs, science cuts amid budget turmoil
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