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A Top NASA Official Is Among Thousands of Staff Leaving the Agency
Makenzie Lystrup’s departure from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center comes soon after the resignation of the director of JPL.
The letter, titled the “The Voyager Declaration,” identifies what the signatories call “recent policies that have or threaten to waste public resources, compromise human safety, weaken national security, and undermine the core NASA mission.” JPL’s center director, Laurie Leshin, stepped down June 1 after ordering layoffs of more than 10 percent of the lab’s workforce last year, largely due to budget uncertainty over the future of NASA’s Mars Sample Return program. The Trump administration’s budget proposal calls for canceling the robotic Mars Sample Return program in favor of eventually bringing home rock specimens from the red planet on future human expeditions.
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