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For the second time this year, NASA’s JPL center cuts its workforce

“If we hold strong together, we will come through this.”…

In her staff memo, Leshin said the lab's leadership has had to deal with "continued funding challenges" and an uncertain outlook as NASA considers its priorities for deep space exploration, and the role that JPL will play. While NASA considers alternatives from other field centers, as well as private companies such as SpaceX and Rocket Lab, the budget for Mars Sample Return was slashed from nearly $1 billion for this fiscal year to less than $300 million. However in recent years other spaceflight centers, such as Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, and private companies such as Lockheed have competed for projects and delivered results.

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